: :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> At the moment we have no plans to integrate package management :> directly into the filesystem layer. We do have tools already :> available (varsyms) to make this possible, and pkgsrc makes things :> easier by installing into /usr/pkg, leaving /usr/local available to :> the user. :> :> But, primarily, we are dependant on pkgsrc's installation management. : :Um, wasn't this planned for 1.8?
I don't think so. pkgsrc is pkgsrc. We have no plans to hack it. I do recall Joerg mentioning multi-version libraries but I don't know if that's in his current plans or not. It is possible to create independant pkgsrc environments using NULLFS and/or varsyms. In particular, one could make /usr/pkg a varsym pointing to the correct directory (instead of just being a directory), and then use varsyms to create entirely independant pkgsrc environments for each major service running on the machine. I would personally like pkgsrc to have the ability to install multiple versions of a package, but that is support that the pkgsrc people would have to add, not us. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>