Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:24:20 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: namor <namor@hemio.de>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <201208271224.20329.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <503A8921.6010609@FreeBSD.org> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120826200246.GC3535@grinsebacke.dyndns.org> <503A8921.6010609@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:37:53 pm Doug Barton wrote: > The problem is that we don't really support the idea of things in the > base magically deleting themselves. > > As I have said in previous messages, the bootstrapping problem is being > overblown by several orders of magnitude. For newly installed systems > where pkg is the default, /usr/local/bin/pkg will be installed. So there > is no bootstrapping problem. > > For already-installed systems who wish to switch to pkg, they can > install from /usr/ports, or use the pkg bootstrap tool in the base. > Given that they will be intentionally making this change, and there will > be instructions written up on how to do this which include the > bootstrapping step, once again this is a non-issue. > > The whole idea of having every call to /usr/local/sbin/pkg pass through > /usr/sbin/pkg in order to help a tiny minority of users with a one-time > bootstrapping issue is just plain ludicrous. I agree. Even if we keep /usr/sbin/pkg, we will presumably want to remove it from the base in a year or so via 'make delete-old', etc. Given that, I'm not sure we need it there in the first place. -- John Baldwin
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