From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Feb 17 2:41:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-53.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3B637B503 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:41:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A2FE67021; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:41:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:41:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Mark Murray , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving Things [was Re: List of things to move from main tree] Message-ID: <20010217024139.A84171@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <2628.982402377@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <2628.982402377@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:32:57AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:32:57AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I think you're on the right general track, you're just not being > radical enough to reach the real prize at the bottom of this cereal > box. :-) [Note to self: Do countries other than the USA put prizes in > boxes of breakfast cereal? Must research this]. >=20 > First, let me ask everyone to stop thinking about this in terms of the > traditional /usr/src and /usr/ports dichotomy and start thinking about > software from more of a 20,000 foot [6080 meter] level. When we talk > about software around here, we generally mean one of three things: I think a lot of good things will become easy once we finally get an installer which is capable of treating packages on the same footing as source code distributions. That is the root of our problems, and until it goes away I can't see much being fixed. Has there been any progress from BSDi about this? ISTR some of your guys were working on it. Kris --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6jlViWry0BWjoQKURApLHAKDO00GbuX+M2Mmjs+Zp3/lE5kL9GgCgqRph bEAgDO0C4qAw/FGFmyCMHbA= =Nrys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message