Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:55:40 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> To: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <20120823195540.335baa2d@kan.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org>
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--Sig_/U0E1mWJTS0LcnEYiOr09.HE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:19:57 -0400 Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg > to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, > it is confusing that running the command gets different results the > second time it is run vs. the first time. I can imagine a user saying > "I ran pkg, but it didn't do what they said it would. Now I run it > again, and it does do what it is supposed to." Also, it would enable > setting up a pkg-bootstrap man page separate from the pkg man page, > without confusion about which one you're looking at. >=20 > So, opinions? There may still be time to fix it for 9.1 if we can > decide quickly. >=20 > Thanks, > Steve >=20 Remove it or rename it. Do _NOT_ make it download the package and install it silently as this is a security nightmare waiting to happen. --=20 Alexander Kabaev --Sig_/U0E1mWJTS0LcnEYiOr09.HE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFQNsMFQ6z1jMm+XZYRAlk7AJ9rL4dKinLHk9gANmDW65K91045JQCg1TmX /m3IXvv7UfWPsRG74jPVXTY= =dHFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/U0E1mWJTS0LcnEYiOr09.HE--
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