Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:25:20 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, arch <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Package system wishlist Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0207121121200.19306-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3D2E8CED.9A6B30D3@softweyr.com>
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Wes Peters wrote: > With some nice, canned configurations that do a good approximation of > working out of the box. Seconded: sample configurations and real, user-modified configurations and I don't want a package upgrade to "accidentally" kill my older config of a dependency that got upgraded in the process, and so on. God, I can't parse that. "Do the right thing with configuration files". Also, avoid the use of pre/post scripts as much as possible: declarative metadata to describe external dependencies that a package has (90% of the time these will probably just be "this group" or "that user") so that I can configure local policy for creating daemon users, getting rid of them when no installed packages still require them, etc. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Talk is cheap: free, as in beer. As in Real Ale, not that Budweiser rubbish. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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