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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
