Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:17:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Artem Tepponen <temik@egartech.com> Cc: rsi@panix.com, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <3D2B60EB.3CAB559B@mindspring.com> References: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B296E614C@turtle.egar.egartech.com>
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Artem Tepponen wrote: > > > Unfortunately this doesn't solve third party packages problem well. > > > Note: ports do have freebsd maintainers but packages may not (well, > > > there should be possibility for standalone thirdparty packages). > > > > It doesn't solve the third party binary only kernel components > > problem, either. 8-). > > Hmm, I guess this problem won't be solved by packages system only 8-) > Stable binary APIs is not a strong side of open source projects.... That's a problem, too. But the problem I was thinking of is the one of dependencies on a binary object for which there is no source. It's precisely analogous to the precompiled package issue, particularly if the package you are wanting to install is source with binary components for the kernel, and you want to subsequently statically link it into the kernel. The Smiley is because it's not a problem that I think is intended by FreeBSD to be solved with a package system ... though it could be. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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