On 04/19/16 20:15, Warner Losh wrote:
On Apr 19, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Matthew Grooms <mgro...@shrew.net> wrote:
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.
Sadly the tenor and tone of the discussion isn’t one where progress is made.
The tone has been a bit toxic and demanding, which grinds people into dust,
rather than motivating them to fix things. You might call it a discussion, but
it reads to me more as a bunch of angry villagers storming the castle. No good
can come from that. Tone down the outrage by a factor of 100 and try to have
the conversation again.
Warner
Yes, and that tone raises everyone's defensive hackles, which is never
good. I'm going to make a patch for a reduced package count and
hopefully we can restart this discussion then.
It would also be nice to get a statement of what the intended scope of
these patches is from some of the people involved in the project. It's a
major change to the system and it would be nice to have some kind of
architectural document about what is happening. I'm not sure, for
instance, what the release for 11 looks like with these changes, what
changes need to be made to the installer (something of particular
interest to me), how we build install media now that base is no longer
self-contained (due to lack of pkg), what specific problems were
intended to be solved, how package dependencies work, etc. Something
like a few-page white paper would be *really* helpful for those of us
who weren't at the BSDcan where this was discussed. Even a wiki page
would help a lot.
-Nathan
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