Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:34:34 -0700 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011016103434.D4211@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:17:09PM -0700 References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk> <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com>
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> Do you mean something as simple as just moving some of the > functionality of pkg_add into a libpkg so that other applications can > use it? That's a weekend project at most and something I've > definitely wanted for a long time. sysinstall would be an obvious > consumer of this library, since sysinstall uses cpio to deal with > packages and I've seen packages that pkg_add likes but sysinstall > doesn't like. I tend to forget that sysinstall installs packages because I never use it, so disregard the prior comment about not seeing a gain from a libpkg. I'd still like more details about extending the package framework, however. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message
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