Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:31:30 -0700 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011016103130.C4211@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:08:34AM %2B0100 References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>
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> Our current package framework is inadequate. It needs to be > reconstructed with a middle layer API to separate the underlying > database representation from the package tools. Unfortuately the > open-packages people don't appear to have realised this. :(. It's always possible to take packages they produce and wrap them up with in a fashion suitable for our purposes. The big question is what are our purposes? I agree that our package framework is a little flimsy, but I would like to know what exactly you mean. I'm not sure removing the smarts from pkg_install is the way to go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message
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