Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8) Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1604221812310.15260@minnie.bitsea.ca> In-Reply-To: <76093.1461096570@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <E1asbZj-0003Ra-Qs@rmm6prod02.runbox.com> <76093.1461096570@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > As far as I know, nobody is taking the source code or the Makefiles > away, so if somebody doesn't like the system being distributed with > pkg, they can very well roll their own. True enough. But I am also wary of decending into what became of X, where a build of the xorg metapackage spends 80% of its time running configure, over and over and over again. How long until a source build becomes a series of 'rpmbuild ...' equivalents? Sadly, if this level of fine grained packaging infects the base, it *will* only be a matter of time ... So no matter what the good intentions, this is going to impact everyone, like it or not. --lyndon
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