Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:11:30 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports" Message-ID: <3e13f18e-76e9-47f2-b5af-f181f8e1ddd8@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALH631n6M7_9i1820fNaOApMr2E=BFZbaA2m%2B06pgjYPuw3faQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <5d2daa68-cd27-4a56-9d69-5453b588a086@freebsd.org> <CALH631=AVBRRAe4qOZ2W22h-M=ZtWiSYtho54of-iOhhjBq36Q@mail.gmail.com> <7c48e14d-b463-4523-8610-e18ac99f3381@FreeBSD.org> <CALH631n6M7_9i1820fNaOApMr2E=BFZbaA2m%2B06pgjYPuw3faQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 20/08/2025 15:31, Gleb Popov wrote: > … if we're going full bikeshedding mode then I think that repos > should be named after what they represent rather than from what they are built. > That is, > - FreeBSD packages > - FreeBSD base packages > - FreeBSD kernel modules > > All right, maybe "FreeBSD packages" looks like a superset of the > latter two, so we can call it "FreeBSD main packages", which aligns > nicely with "FreeBSD quarterly packages". > > … I think, 'packages' in the name of any package repo will be superfluous. The configuration file is for use with pkg tools; we have 'pkg' in the url within the file; and 'pkg' in the path to the file.home | help
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