From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 8:51:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E311C37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.25.137.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32FC943E52 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 20610 invoked by uid 0); 10 Jul 2002 15:51:21 -0000 Received: from gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com (196.25.137.65) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2002 15:51:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 70267 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Jul 2002 15:52:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:52:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system wishlist Message-ID: <20020710155206.GA70184@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com> <200207101459.g6AExQfP034695@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207101459.g6AExQfP034695@cwsys.cwsent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2002-07-10 (07:59), Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > > So, following Jordan's advice, what's on everyone's wishlist? > > > > Terry's Wishlist: > [...] > > + Cy's Wishlist: > > o Optional installation of sources. RH's SRPM's is a very poor > example of this. A better example would be what IBM does to > install JES/2 on their MVS system, e.g. an OpenSSH package might > contain source in addition to binaries. The sources would be > installed in /usr/src while the binaries would be installed > in /usr/bin, sbin.... Not in the same file, please. We also need to think about people who want to use conventional tools to move packages about. > o The package system should be independent of the compression tool > used. In the future new compression algorithms and tools will > be developed. The package system should be flexible enough to > not care how its files are compressed or packaged. Debian's dpkg is designed that way - dpkg-deb is the tool that understands Debian packages, while dpkg does the actual package management logic. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message