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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:33:47 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jonathan Anderson <jonathan.robert.anderson@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
Message-ID:  <20120825003346.GA1345@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <67BB0A66-A9D2-4257-A91E-C249B8076A87@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to
> > need the bootstrapping tool that will be in the base.
>=20

So, then they won't use it.  I fail to see the problem here.

> But surely the whole point of pkgng is that people *will* use pkg
> as the default method of acquiring third-party software, so they'll
> want to "pkg install foo" and have it Just Work. To say either "you
> must download the ports tree in order to use binary packages" or
> "you must use pkg_add to install pkg" seems to miss the point...
>=20

/usr/sbin/pkg installs /usr/local/sbin/pkg without requiring the Ports
Collection to be available locally.

Glen


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