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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:30:11 +0400
From:      Dmitry Sarkisov <ait_mlist@rocc.ru>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports vs packages
Message-ID:  <20120110113011.GA47338@aperturescience.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F0C0FE6.6040002@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 10-01-2012, Tue [10:16:06], Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 09:23, Dmitry Sarkisov wrote:
> > Would be nice to know if there any plans on switching to pkgng or any other pkg management 
> > system in a future.
> 
> pkgng is under active development with the stated aim of replacing the
> current packaging system.  If you want to get involved, check out the
> #pkgng channel on irc.freenode.net
> 
> It's still too early in the pkgng development cycle for a decision to
> have been made about if and when it becomes the new standard packaging
> system.  Given it is such a major infrastructure change the switch over
> will have to be carefully managed and I'd expect there to be a lot of
> activity over on freebsd-ports@ while it is all in beta.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

Thanks for the info, Matthew! It's really good to see some moving forward once in a while.

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Best wishes,

Dmitry Sarkisov
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