On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to > > need the bootstrapping tool that will be in the base. >
So, then they won't use it. I fail to see the problem here. > But surely the whole point of pkgng is that people *will* use pkg > as the default method of acquiring third-party software, so they'll > want to "pkg install foo" and have it Just Work. To say either "you > must download the ports tree in order to use binary packages" or > "you must use pkg_add to install pkg" seems to miss the point... > /usr/sbin/pkg installs /usr/local/sbin/pkg without requiring the Ports Collection to be available locally. Glen
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