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From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:55:42AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> As this comes up all the time, I'd say just do it.  People here will
> talk your ear off.

OK. I am just a bit dubious about starting a large chunk of work, only to be
told later "we're not going to commit this, the consensus here is we don't
want to do it this way because X / Y / Z"

Incidentally, do we have a current status on this?
http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/libpkg.3.txt

This looks like a pre-requisite for turning the base system into packages.

Regards,

Brian.