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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:23:44 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
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On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"?
>>
>> Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;)
>
> The possibility of bad docs somewhere outside of our control, when we can=
 (and I am actively working on) document(ing) pkgng for the handbook seems =
kinda thin. It's not even "Something's wrong on the Internet!" (http://xkcd=
.com/386/), it's "Something might some day be wrong on the Internet!"

It isn't a problem of bad docs. Its a problem of the user following
some not-for-new-systems documentation and getting very confused when
they see "command not found.". It is practically the definition of
POLA.

--=20
Eitan Adler



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