From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 12:33: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22A437B43C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA87603; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Bill Fumerola Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Fumerola of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:08:12 EDT." <20000830140812.Q33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:32:50 -0700 Message-ID: <87599.967663970@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:02:33AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > JKH said he plans on having sysinstall changed for 5.0 and true packages. > > Thus why he said it wasn't worth the effort in -current. I don't think > > he wanted to rock the boat in -stable. > > Are these the same plans from 5 years ago? Your wise-ass comments aside, I think that there are a number of things which are driving us to NOT just hack-hack-hack on sysinstall some more and attempt to accomplish by behind-the-scenes trickery what should be accomplished by a proper mechanism, I.E. having all the fundamental building blocks be proper packages and "bin" simply a meta-package which depends on those packages which comprise what we currently consider "the bindist." Since it's also far easier to be a back-seat driver on issues like this than to actually assist the process, I would welcome your coding contributions to making this happen rather than just suggesting that we tangle our existing mess even further. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message