From owner-freebsd-libh Wed Apr 24 16:28:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2FF37B400; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0275.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.20] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 170WA9-0002zb-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:27:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC73F29.1C6B1DA2@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:26:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antoine Beaupre Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, The Anarcat , freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: packaging base References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Antoine Beaupre wrote: > Le Mercredi 24 avril 2002, =E0 11:12 , Mike Meyer a =E9crit : > > Your simple shell script has to prompt for floppies. That needs UI > > code. The people who know have decided that the current UI code isn't= > > up to snuff. Hence libh. > = > Come on.. The current package system and sysinstall are quite good at > prompting for a simple yes/no question. The issue is really not there, = I > think. Actually, the prompting is problematic. All such questions should, by definition, be front-loaded. Otherwise, you have to babysit the installation process, which is never a good thing. But that's beside the point: basically, any HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is, by definition, through a UI. > Libh is developping a UI, fine. But we need to develop a way to package= > base efficiently. A good first start would be to have it be composed of packages instead of distfiles, and to have a mandatory/optional flag. Actually, wasn't Eric Melville already dealing with this? > I'm concerned with getting base packaged. It shouldn't be too hard to > package base in either libh or classic pkgtools once the framework is i= n > place. > = > I'm concerned that since libh doesn't currently aim at handling the > current bin.xx brute-force system, it will need base to be packaged in > order to install a running system. That's an incredibly positive thing (IMO). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message