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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2024 14:40:24 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 2:21=E2=80=AFPM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024, 2:19=E2=80=AFPM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wr=
ote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 1:50=E2=80=AFPM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebs=
d.dk> wrote:
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>> > --------
>> > Alan Somers writes:
>> >
>> > > For example, libifconfig and the /dev/cam/ctl ioctls are both unstab=
le.
>> > > A port that uses one of those and is built for FreeBSD 14.0 won't
>> > > necessarily work for 14.1.
>> >
>> > Isn't that also a problem today ?
>> >
>> > What difference does it make that src is distributed as a package ?
>>
>> Not "a package" but "many packages".  The pkgbase concept builds a
>> separate package for almost every dir under lib, bin, sbin, usr.bin,
>> and usr.sbin.  So the problem will be that libifconfig and its
>> consumers will be distributed separately, whereas they are currently
>> distributed together.
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>
> Won't versions and dependencies solve this? They aren't tied to a kernel =
version since its a stable ABI.
>
> Warnrr
>>
>> -Alan

Aren't you the one who just said that the ABI will need to become
stable?  Or did you only mean that about the /dev/cam/ctl ioctls?  For
private libs, the easiest thing would be if pkgbase could put libs and
their consumers into the same package.  But that might not always be
possible.



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