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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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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

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