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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:08:34 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, binup@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: design issues
Message-ID:  <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700
References:  <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com>

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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:05:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:
> > This weekend I sat down to work on some code for the binary updater, bu=
t I
> > didn't really get anything done because I thought that a few important
> > decisions where yet to be made, and really affect what I'm going to be
> > working on next.
>=20
>   I don't think that the situation is any different than when this
> project started.
>=20
> > 1. I've heard speculation of an entirely new package framework, that wo=
uld
>=20
>   It's been talked about plenty of times.  Jordan wrote a several page
> outline about what he wanted in a next generation package system
> at least 18 months ago.  I'm personally a big fan of incremental
> change, and I would like to see the base system broken up using our
> current package framework for 5.0. =20

Our current package framework is inadequate.  It needs to be
reconstructed with a middle layer API to separate the underlying
database representation from the package tools.  Unfortuately the
open-packages people don't appear to have realised this. :(.

Joe

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