From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 07:25:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 6462016A400 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:25:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2165213C48A for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB3E20A7; Mon, 14 May 2007 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE4A20A6; Mon, 14 May 2007 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 478DF564B; Mon, 14 May 2007 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: Mike Meyer References: <20070512004209.GA12218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <17989.8202.624522.136573@bhuda.mired.org> <20070512090935.GA13929@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <17991.45596.499601.195720@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:25:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <17991.45596.499601.195720@bhuda.mired.org> (Mike Meyer's message of "Sun\, 13 May 2007 20\:49\:32 -0400") Message-ID: <861whjyigy.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Michel Talon Subject: Re: DPS Initial Ideas 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: Mon, 14 May 2007 07:25:53 -0000 Mike Meyer writes: > You missed the point. The claim was "the sqlite database can be edited > as easily as a pure textfile." I claim this is not always true. In > particular, since someone has already mentioned using SQL for system > config file instead of just the pkackage db, if your system has > suffered a major failure such that commands in the base system - like > vi, ed, etc. - are busted, then sqlite (whether it's part of the base > system or not) can equally well be be broken. If your base system is busted, your priority is to fix your base system, not muck around with packages. They can wait until the base system is working again. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no