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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2016 00:03:33 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org,  secteam@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <EEC40769-518A-4314-A036-7387E53E3335@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDtqkusw592tKuR9hk7mN8g_oRovMS38YuMDuFy6ammoWA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20160519203126.GO3335@FreeBSD.org> <CAKE2PDtqkusw592tKuR9hk7mN8g_oRovMS38YuMDuFy6ammoWA@mail.gmail.com>

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> On 19 May 2016, at 23:29, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On 19 May 2016 at 13:31, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Given the state of this highly-disruptive change to the base system, we
>> need to take the best interest of the FreeBSD community into primary
>> consideration, as a whole.
>>=20
>> We have arrived at the difficult decision to treat packaged base as
>> a "beta" feature for 11.0-RELEASE, and continue with freebsd-update(8)
>> as the primary binary upgrade mechanism for this release.
>=20
>=20
> This is a very sensible solution.
> I think we can all agree we'd rather have something known to work over
> an unknown, lightly tested highly friction change.
>=20
> Keep up the great work and rest easier knowing pkg will be a beta thing. :=
)
>=20

Same here, thank you so much for your hard work on something that will be a b=
ig step forward and also for being realistic enough to not forcing things be=
fore they're ready!

- Michael






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