From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 10:15:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F5B106566C for ; Tue, 4 May 2010 10:15:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brampton@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1628D8FC0C for ; Tue, 4 May 2010 10:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so3418717fxm.13 for ; Tue, 04 May 2010 03:15:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=vUuv8pASRVnoJTa/qiEE0m/hj2aaoBiZPvjWOP0/4XU=; b=hU4QrbOtkayBO3j6gJr1GymMEzw4LrhCmTSx0zv5OhLu6CX+aWikZFnCMaVFsLlwUr zPRSLkFUk6dsBpPz2u2pix3fctLJ1wxiKySNlRd+d4iTR/dBaM7DGCDW8HtBEo9mx+CK xT9Uv7MT0ICKMikoHroGZGNwnw5H0g/I3XDzY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=BLUEbepR1JNBU5rRgHq+rxQcr0q7GOej0n6+2Rmiv0LKTEHojJubXlOSUxKBd9s+A3 O76UTHzSnyZMu+z2cGmXxNlgp/rPP0BXyEV2vwoaxwSmr8qj3P4FoWJvYyje0FHFhQt+ BapM5PDGjOn0gIqtF3RVBfrRMU5nsaF7cr6n4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.99.212 with SMTP id v20mr3966850fan.44.1272968134650; Tue, 04 May 2010 03:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: brampton@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.126.208 with HTTP; Tue, 4 May 2010 03:15:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:15:34 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4e81b4a7cf5e023d Message-ID: From: Andrew Brampton To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julien Laffaye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Subject: Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:15:41 -0000 On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Julien Laffaye wrote: > > Hello, > > During this summer, I'll work on the pkg_install tools to add complete > package support. > A complete package is a package which includes all the required > dependencies in its tarball. > Unlike the PBI package format of PC-BSD, once a complete package is installed, > it appears as every package contained in the complete package was > installed separately. > [snip] > > Best regards, > Julien Laffaye Hi Julien, Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a complete package over many individual ones? Andrew