From owner-freebsd-binup Tue Oct 16 10:18:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 74A5237B401; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:18:52 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: Josef Karthauser Cc: binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011016101852.A4211@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011015015854.X31066@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011015015854.X31066@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:58:54AM +0100 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 > > 1. I've heard speculation of an entirely new package framework, that would > > include things such as base system components being installed as > > packages. Is this anywhere near reality for 5.0-RELEASE, or should it be > > considered a thought that has past? > > Who's working on this? If you're thinking of open-packages then I don't > believe that it's up to this yet. I'm not aware of any other efforts. This is stuff that Jordan has mentioned in the past. I don't think anyone is actively working on anything, however. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message