From owner-freebsd-binup Fri Oct 25 11:37:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA3637B401; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from groovie.org (adsl-64-161-27-250.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.161.27.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD82143E42; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skyline@groovie.org) Received: from skyline by groovie.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1859G2-0006q9-00; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:32:30 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:32:30 -0700 From: Philip Jenvey To: The Anarcat Cc: Murray Stokely , GERARDO ENRIQUE PAREDES MANCIA , freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking up base (was: current state of the binup project) Message-ID: <20021025113230.E19673@groovie.org> References: <200210190255.10557.g.paredes@unitec.edu> <20021019105417.C69448@freebsdmall.com> <20021022174617.GC3492@xtanbul.espresso-com.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021022174617.GC3492@xtanbul.espresso-com.com>; from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:46:18PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:46:18PM -0400, The Anarcat wrote: > On Sat Oct 19, 2002 at 10:54:17AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > [...] > > the same mechanism. We were not interested in changing the package > > format, because other groups (i.e. libh / openpackages) are more > > focussed on that. We were focussed on updates, delivery, and breaking > > up the base system into discrete components. > > Really? I've been dreaming about breaking up base for a long time > now. Have binup started any work in this direction? > > I have a "paper" I started writing that I've been thinking to send to > -arch for a while now, should it be sent here instead? > > A. > Antoine, we'd love to hear your ideas, even if the "paper" is still in a state that requires surrounding double quotes to describe it. -- Philip Jenvey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message