On 4/19/2016 3:09 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
As far as I know, nobody is taking the source code or the Makefiles
away, so if somebody doesn't like the system being distributed with
pkg, they can very well roll their own.
It's nice to see the level of enthusiasm the FreeBSD project can
muster, I just wish it wasn't always enthusiasm for stopping progress.
Maybe I missed an email in this thread, but I don't recall anyone
completely rejecting the idea of packaging the base system. What I see
is a discussion related to doing it in the best way possible.
I suspect that most of the negative reactions people are having is due
to the line being blurred between the base system and everything else.
Historically there has always been a clear distinction. By packaging
base and throwing it in with everything else, you erase that
distinction. I suspect that if the 'base is different' concept was
preserved in a more fundamental way, there would be less resistance.
After all, is there that much difference between trusting freebsd-update
to patch X files vs trusting pkg to update X packaged files?
What if there were two classes of packages, base and general? To
interact with a base package set, perhaps an additional command line
argument could be required. If you do a 'pkg info' after an install, an
empty package set is shown. If you do a 'pkg info --base' ( or whatever
) instead, you see the base package set installed. If you need to get
back to just the base system, you run 'pkg delete *' without the --base
arg. In other words, base retains it's distinction and pkg pretty much
works the same as it does now ( without the new argument ).
-Matthew
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