From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 22:29:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D23B106566C; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C95163793; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5036AE8B.9030807@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:28:27 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Wills References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:29:36 -0000 On 8/23/2012 3:19 PM, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it is run vs. the first time. I can imagine a user saying "I ran pkg, but it didn't do what they said it would. Now I run it again, and it does do what it is supposed to." Also, it would enable setting up a pkg-bootstrap man page separate from the pkg man page, without confusion about which one you're looking at. > > So, opinions? There may still be time to fix it for 9.1 if we can decide quickly. Yes please. Every time in the past that we have talked about moving the pkg_* tools to the ports the corresponding change for the base was to have a pkg_bootstrap tool that was a use once and forget kind of thing. I was quite surprised when sbin/pkg was added, but since people tell me I already comment on too much, I decided to wait and see what others thought. Doug -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)