From owner-freebsd-libh Thu Aug 8 11:32:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B91D37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal.sdsc.edu (postal.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9F443E6A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from okumoto@SDSC.EDU) Received: from multivac.sdsc.edu (IDENT:s4WWAZy25li5/knkyBK7ogvvjF80f0xO@multivac.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.57]) by postal.sdsc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6/server/44) with ESMTP id g78IWA107243; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by multivac (8.11.6+Sun/1.11-SolarisClient) id g78IW8821958; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:32:08 -0700 (PDT) To: The Anarcat Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: package format and creation References: <7F90C363-AA43-11D6-9D65-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx> <20020808141445.GA24117@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> From: Max Okumoto Date: 08 Aug 2002 11:32:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: The Anarcat's message of "Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:14:45 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Anarcat writes: > > Although I'm not sure libh should fulfill all the reasons you mention > in that listing there. "restore from backup" is the first thing that > seems a bit to stretched for a libh use. > > However, this shouldn't affect design decisions otherwise than saying: > "fine, here's libh, you can do a lot of things with it, but you'll > have to write the scripts". > > In other words, provide a clean way, and a clean interface to write > such script but don't rot too much on bits that wouldn't be useful to > all configs. These can be written outside libh without problems. > > libh is, for me, 2 things: > > - console or Graphical UI > - package library > > the rest is extensions, and we must not focus on those yet. Those > extensions will have to be written for seperate package configurators > (e.g. the "net" package configurator or "apache" configurator, etc). When you say extension do you mean? libh/lib/fooext + libh/release/scripts/fooext.tcl Max Okumoto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message