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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:43:24 +1100
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r399866 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg
Message-ID:  <5627340C.8070003@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151021062813.GA73962@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201510201604.t9KG4Y6K081852@repo.freebsd.org> <56268F00.50503@gmx.de> <20151020232612.GE89715@exodus.zi0r.com> <20151021062813.GA73962@FreeBSD.org>

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On 21/10/2015 5:28 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:26:13PM -0400, Ryan Steinmetz wrote:
>> On (10/20/15 20:59), olli hauer wrote:
>>>> +++ head/ports-mgmt/pkg/pkg-plist	Tue Oct 20 16:04:34 2015	(r399866)
>>>> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ man/man8/pkg-upgrade.8.gz
>>>>  man/man8/pkg-version.8.gz
>>>>  man/man8/pkg-which.8.gz
>>>>  man/man8/pkg.8.gz
>>>> +sbin/bapt-get
>>>>  sbin/pkg
>>>>  sbin/pkg-static
>>>>  sbin/pkg2ng
>>>
>>> Hm, what's the purpose of the softlink for the average pkg user?
>>> A hint in the commit message why this softlink is useful would be nice
>>
>> There's no point for the average user.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/FiLiS/status/654067783517515777
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced that jokes on Twitter should be converted to
> patches (unguarded by -DWITH_BAPT_GET_JOKE_LOL knob defauling to off)
> that easily.
> 
> On a more technical note, your symlink is not quite right because it
> contains absolute path while relative `pkg' is sufficient, much shorter,
> and correct (think of NFS-mounted machine where absolute paths would be
> pointing to local filesystem instead of remote).
> 
> ./danfe
> 

I'm divided. Fun is good, but having to maintain an alias people end up
putting in scripts/etc going forward forever, that they can create
themselves instead (I have a fun poudriere(8) alias) .. not so much.



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