On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:11:11 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > pkgng is a binary package manager written from scratch for FreeBSD. >
Fantastic! I know it is quite too early but I already have one feature request ;) Perhaps it could be added to the TODO as a post-1.0 goal. = Generic extraction filters = Allow registration of custom filters that can alter/exclude/add? files during package extraction (installation). Examples of possible filters: - strip debug info - exclude development files (headers, static libs) - exclude unused translations - exclude documentation (all or just unknown languages) - generic glob/regex path filters - optional file groups defined in package (install time OPTIONS) ? Some sort of configuration mechanism with list of enabled filters and their options (like a list of languages to keep). Most of this can be implemented as a simple glob/regex matching but there are edge cases where packages have some non-standard layout or have to keep certain file in which case a package metadata should contain a list of exclusions/additions from/to above categories. Package manager should register only actually installed files but list of alterations should be also kept somewhere in database. What do you think ? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
