Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:57:44 -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 Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=TMbmwbhhmiGi_MfqjjE144pQAMNoR3ajTzR3n4Z5XLQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org>
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On 23 August 2012 18:19, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> 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 th= at 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 w= hat they said it would. Now I run it again, and it does do what it is supp= osed to." Also, it would enable setting up a pkg-bootstrap man page separat= e from the pkg man page, without confusion about which one you're looking a= t. > > So, opinions? There may still be time to fix it for 9.1 if we can decide = quickly. no opinion on the name, but imho there should be *something* called "pkg" on a fresh system. Users will install a new system, follow some random how-to, and not realize they missed a step. If the default package errors with exit code 1 and says "run pkgbootstrap first" that is okay too. --=20 Eitan Adler
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