Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

In <20070511184259.GA23483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kris Kennaway <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
The point is that the real problem is: "how do you arrange the bits on
disk", not "how do you wrap that in a package system". Until you
figure out a workable on-disk arrangement for the files, questions
about packaging are not relevant. And it seems that option 1 is the
only workable one in practise (unless you have some other idea), which
can easily be achieved today with a couple of hours of kernel hacking.

There are clearly other workable ideas - as I said, the linux folks
managed to make it work. But it's not an easy problem. I certainly
wouldn't suggest rebuilding the packaging system to deal with this,
except as part of a larger effort. On the other hand, since people are
working on the ports/package system (I see port/pkg database and some
ports infrastructure work in the current SoC projects list), not
keeping this goal in mind would seem to be a bit short-sighted. I
wouldn't be surprised if your option #1 could benefit from this as
well.


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