Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:27:02 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>, bapt@FreeBSD.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>, Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@FreeBSD.org>, David Forsythe <dforsyth@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: what next for the pkg_install rewrite Message-ID: <864oep6yi1.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A4FFBD88-8830-4BB3-8765-AC7BAB8AC91C@gmail.com> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:08:15 -0700") References: <20100819143830.GJ35140@azathoth.lan> <AANLkTimY=FJas-oXkWwO07QtaD%2BGrLockgJ_SZQJ7UHM@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimhh2vOtXUb-frzWcZmANWyEC7oPtTgepzvOtSB@mail.gmail.com> <4C6DA0FA.7080203@DataIX.net> <AANLkTi=h_GdAFbZ2X0agCAtyLLiwNrMoLx_ZunhBBx2=@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinn4utHttMPsCN1GKp1dTPOdTJAtLgG3m8BfLgw@mail.gmail.com> <4C6DE8DB.8010202@DataIX.net> <A4FFBD88-8830-4BB3-8765-AC7BAB8AC91C@gmail.com>
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Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> writes: > The emphasis that Florent made too was to remove crud in pkg_install > and libpkg and get things down to more of a library form so we could > develop thin wrappers above pkg_install with logical functions (like > apt-get, yum, etc does with fetching, whereas rpm does with > installation, etc), instead of maintaining pkg_install the way it is > today. >From perspective of a user I'd like those wrappers be written in a scripted language so they're easy to hack. Because sh(1) doesn't have smth like FFI we'd need one command that exports all functions from the library. Some port managing tools could then bypass those wrappers when doing complex tasks.
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