Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:25:15 +0100 From: Jonathan Anderson <jonathan.robert.anderson@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <67BB0A66-A9D2-4257-A91E-C249B8076A87@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50380269.6020003@FreeBSD.org> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120824081543.GB2998@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50380269.6020003@FreeBSD.org>
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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. 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... Jon -- Jonathan Anderson jonathan@FreeBSD.org http://freebsd.org/~jonathan/=
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