From owner-freebsd-binup Tue Oct 16 10:31:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 6477937B40B; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:31:30 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Murray Stokely , binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011016103130.C4211@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@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: <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:08:34AM +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 > Our current package framework is inadequate. It needs to be > reconstructed with a middle layer API to separate the underlying > database representation from the package tools. Unfortuately the > open-packages people don't appear to have realised this. :(. It's always possible to take packages they produce and wrap them up with in a fashion suitable for our purposes. The big question is what are our purposes? I agree that our package framework is a little flimsy, but I would like to know what exactly you mean. I'm not sure removing the smarts from pkg_install is the way to go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message