Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:33:47 -0400 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan Anderson <jonathan.robert.anderson@gmail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <20120825003346.GA1345@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <67BB0A66-A9D2-4257-A91E-C249B8076A87@gmail.com> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120824081543.GB2998@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50380269.6020003@FreeBSD.org> <67BB0A66-A9D2-4257-A91E-C249B8076A87@gmail.com>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to > > need the bootstrapping tool that will be in the base. >=20 So, then they won't use it. I fail to see the problem here. > But surely the whole point of pkgng is that people *will* use pkg > as the default method of acquiring third-party software, so they'll > want to "pkg install foo" and have it Just Work. To say either "you > must download the ports tree in order to use binary packages" or > "you must use pkg_add to install pkg" seems to miss the point... >=20 /usr/sbin/pkg installs /usr/local/sbin/pkg without requiring the Ports Collection to be available locally. Glen --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQOB1qAAoJEFJPDDeguUajsFEH/j8vvdEx/IVKukZ5/SX/CKTS ZXUvrGdtktWztHSSHicXdKp2Id0JErXv+BikdOftRst4FP2PPZd/N+1UNrlJ42sb 4rSrYxkKVf0ooQTwrfVlETfb5bAdtXZLNUCiNu/WFh/jbCpOgkkuwFr49HUhZCHg 4VL1/wsgYaVkcVNIDscIsKYRNImHosLem4kxKiht60P8SUsOQ07cWFU7olo/QEHw E/b5gW/4TUnWsJpxZH0Xheh5mxw7eJ6l8XbKemdZmtYdq01VrygOI1WR7UgtxYf0 +64ZMf0Zv45opV8Ov7+ArHn0NVBTGe0tUas5cmwvUnsMe2b4xVpoX+VH6JRSBUA= =2fL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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