Absolutely. That was a big goal in the proposal, even if it was not stated.
Essentially a pre built package was a package built by pkgbuild with the default options. On 5/14/07, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:43:43AM -0500, Steve Stallion wrote: > > > Danek/All, > > > > I would like to see a couple of high level requirements added (I am > > not sure of the appropriate bullet points to place these under) to > > this list: > > > > 1. Users should have the ability to install the same bit of software > > either by source or by a pre-build package. > > > > 2. Installing a source-built package should allow for customization of > > options (similar to pkgbuild now). > > > > Thoughts? > > I think they're great goals, but Stephen and I are trying to separate the > build system from the packaging system. The idea is that the two would act > as two pieces in a pipeline to the final product, either of which would be > interchangeable. Thus pkgbuild could feed into the packaging system, yet > be independent. Heck, maybe even "make install" could. > > Danek >
