[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 04/19/16 13:26, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <1461096962.1232.32.camel at freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes:
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>> Oh yeah, now I remember:  Because in freebsd, design is decided by a
>> race to commit rather than by discussion.
> No, that's not it.
>
> It is because code talks much louder than words.
>
This is kind of a silly argument here since the code change is trivial. 
There is a potentially large impact on the system that merits 
discussion. Moreover, there is a whole bunch of other code still needs 
to be written to make this workable in production that depends to some 
degree on what choices are made here: what does pkg show for these? How 
do upgrades work? The installer needs modifications to use pkg instead 
of tar. It's not clear what the migration path to/from a packaged system 
is, since the packaging is apparently optional.

If it would help, I am happy to generate a patch to make the discussion 
concrete.
-Nathan