Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 01:26:59 +0100 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: A bit of discussion: Why don't we use a stage? Message-ID: <200502010126.59366.danny@ricin.com>
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Building a bit upon the mythtv maintainer who had a problem with deinstall, I
never understood why we don't first build and install into a stage and then
install into the live system from that (like Gentoo Linux does and I think to
great benifit in terms of subimitters). It's much easier to make maximum use
of that particular software's possibilities before comitting it to the live
file system, as you can intervene right there on the staged install. Upon
install we also often treat ${WRKDIR}/<theport> as being the stage as it is.
I wonder, are there pressing reasons not to do that (apart from marginally
more space needed)? Perhaps this is a stupid or bikeshed question but I've
wondered about this several times. Do I imagine a bigger gain than there
would be in reality?
Dan
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