From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 14:19:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316581065673 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F8D8FC12 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6154BEB1B3 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:19:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:19:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=q5gVznjvarQWE756+hx3TiB5fRs=; b=XAY9wjo14oiIf0gbzbuwWbLYHU682Eb2YPQsu3MbVcH626/W+I6pT0S5on6AekTvDFVbwHxUNYIGUphOwt5EZiL0OJpk22pcYDdIfhBILY+UZPXxzWlE24IW8/IgkD1eu2rjc/WRf71/v/lRvnbCWuCZ6UfmxhKs6CvZzeL1qiE= X-Sasl-enc: HmsKZSKl+oA/+9itxDrsdhu0nHLjLBY3i3XWXeZ7IcZ2 1270909141 Received: from anglepoise.lon.incunabulum.net (cpc2-dals7-0-0-cust253.hari.cable.virginmedia.com [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 03BB636E7A for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:19:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BC088D3.3010908@incunabulum.net> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:18:59 +0100 From: Bruce Simpson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100406 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4BBFD502.1010507@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4BBFD502.1010507@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ports and PBIs 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: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:19:02 -0000 On 04/10/10 02:31, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr PBI), some > others and I, felt that these ideas seemed to make some sense > and so I put them here for comment. Please do. Someone has to do something about deployment. For what it's worth, I've tripped over the garden rake on the ground, that is 'unsatisfied dependency' one too many times in commercial work. If PBIs can address this, even for FreeBSD's embedded and server use cases, they will likely be well recieved.