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El Martes, 10 de Mayo de 2005 13:14, Brian Candler escribi=F3:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:55:42AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > As this comes up all the time, I'd say just do it.  People here
> > will talk your ear off.
>
> OK. I am just a bit dubious about starting a large chunk of work,
> only to be told later "we're not going to commit this, the consensus
> here is we don't want to do it this way because X / Y / Z"
>
> Incidentally, do we have a current status on this?
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/libpkg.3.txt
>
> This looks like a pre-requisite for turning the base system into
> packages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>

If you are serious about this, take a look into how this is done in=20
NetBSD.

Allthough this is not active in the stock build, the work is near=20
complete and fine grained.

=2D-
  josemi