From owner-freebsd-binup Tue Oct 22 10:46:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D0C37B401; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.qc.uunet.ca (mail1.qc.uunet.ca [198.168.54.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37D943E42; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarcat@espresso-com.com) Received: from xtanbul.espresso-com.com ([216.94.147.57]) by mail1.qc.uunet.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g9MHkHZ15230; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:46:17 -0400 Received: from anarcat by xtanbul.espresso-com.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18436g-0000vJ-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:46:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:46:18 -0400 From: The Anarcat To: Murray Stokely Cc: GERARDO ENRIQUE PAREDES MANCIA , freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Subject: Breaking up base (was: current state of the binup project) Message-ID: <20021022174617.GC3492@xtanbul.espresso-com.com> References: <200210190255.10557.g.paredes@unitec.edu> <20021019105417.C69448@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021019105417.C69448@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat Oct 19, 2002 at 10:54:17AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: [...] > the same mechanism. We were not interested in changing the package > format, because other groups (i.e. libh / openpackages) are more > focussed on that. We were focussed on updates, delivery, and breaking > up the base system into discrete components. Really? I've been dreaming about breaking up base for a long time now. Have binup started any work in this direction? I have a "paper" I started writing that I've been thinking to send to -arch for a while now, should it be sent here instead? A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message