[HEADSUP] Staging, packaging and more

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 10/04/2013 17:29, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:22:52PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> I really like the current state with full packages. Disk space is cheap,
>> full packages is default for whole FreeBSD existence and it is easy to
>> maintain the system with it. If I want portA and portB, I just install
>> portA and portB and if I want to see installed ports, I see two ports
>> installed and not a bunch of lines like:
>> portA-bin
>> portA-doc
>> portA-dev
>> portB-bin
>> portB-doc
>> portB-dev
>>
>> When I need to update those ports, I will update two ports, not six or
>> more ports / sub ports.
>>
>> Embedded systems are corner case, where many things need to be tweaked
>> anyway.
>>
>> So I like the idea of default full packages with possibility to
>> optionally select and install sub parts for those who really need the
>> fine grained list of packages.
>
> That is because you keep thinking you have to build those ports yourself, we are
> here speaking of binary packages.
>
> regards,
> Bapt
>

Can pkg include IPS facets feature or similar one? So, you'll have full 
binary package, but just subset of package files can be installed on the 
system. Facets solve *-devel hell. You just say once: "I don't want to 
have development-related parts here..."
-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University