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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:34:34 -0700
From:      Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, binup@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: design issues
Message-ID:  <20011016103434.D4211@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:17:09PM -0700
References:  <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk> <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com>

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>   Do you mean something as simple as just moving some of the
> functionality of pkg_add into a libpkg so that other applications can
> use it?  That's a weekend project at most and something I've
> definitely wanted for a long time.  sysinstall would be an obvious
> consumer of this library, since sysinstall uses cpio to deal with
> packages and I've seen packages that pkg_add likes but sysinstall
> doesn't like.

I tend to forget that sysinstall installs packages because I never use it,
so disregard the prior comment about not seeing a gain from a libpkg. I'd
still like more details about extending the package framework, however.

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