Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:55:18 -0400 From: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> 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 Message-ID: <E7E78429-DF60-479C-9364-0DD492ABADB0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmXHd3iAFU5P31-CgKt6Sz=Ou%2BtchQy=h5YshRD_j1fUw@mail.gmail.com> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxg=TMbmwbhhmiGi_MfqjjE144pQAMNoR3ajTzR3n4Z5XLQ@mail.gmail.com> <785B5BAD-E015-4624-B3A1-D05E1BD97E51@freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgm3gYQOxd8q1Ys0nJjFxROErLEXfiy2AM4Mbx5jBHWBmA@mail.gmail.com> <5AC662AA-4874-4BC2-9862-65518B79B840@freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgmXHd3iAFU5P31-CgKt6Sz=Ou%2BtchQy=h5YshRD_j1fUw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>=20 >>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? >>>=20 >>> Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;) >>=20 >> 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!" >=20 > 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. As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#POLA-GLOSSARY So this isn't POLA, it's documentation. Steve
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