Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:52:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system wishlist Message-ID: <20020710155206.GA70184@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200207101459.g6AExQfP034695@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <tlambert2@mindspring.com> <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com> <200207101459.g6AExQfP034695@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Wed 2002-07-10 (07:59), Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > > So, following Jordan's advice, what's on everyone's wishlist? > > > > Terry's Wishlist: > [...] > > + Cy's Wishlist: > > o Optional installation of sources. RH's SRPM's is a very poor > example of this. A better example would be what IBM does to > install JES/2 on their MVS system, e.g. an OpenSSH package might > contain source in addition to binaries. The sources would be > installed in /usr/src while the binaries would be installed > in /usr/bin, sbin.... Not in the same file, please. We also need to think about people who want to use conventional tools to move packages about. > o The package system should be independent of the compression tool > used. In the future new compression algorithms and tools will > be developed. The package system should be flexible enough to > not care how its files are compressed or packaged. Debian's dpkg is designed that way - dpkg-deb is the tool that understands Debian packages, while dpkg does the actual package management logic. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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