On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:06:28 +0000 Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tomoaki AOKI wrote in > <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:39:56 +0000 > > Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tomoaki AOKI wrote in > > > <[email protected]>: > > > > I don't think disallowing de-pkgbasifying is a good idea. > > > > > > we don't disallow depkgbasifying and there is no intention to do that. > > > > > Currently, IIUC, there's no pkgbasify and de-pkgbasify program > > in-tree. > > correct. there is no depkgbasify tool at all, as far as i know, since > pkg is missing functionality which is required to do that. > > > So preparing way to de-pkgbasify on nearly final step of the installer > > (just before "after-installation configurations" like adding user) would > > be helpful. > > this is planned for 16.0, since we will no longer ship distribution sets > and therefore need another solution to do non-pkgbase installs. Thanks! Glad to know it. > however i expect the UI to remain the same as it is now: you select > whether you want pkgbase or not, and if you choose not, bsdinstall > will silently do a pkgbase install then depkgbasify it. there's no > need to potentially confuse users by exposing what's happening > behind the scenes. I've re-read Chapter 2 of the Handbook. And things seems to be changed after I've actually used installer as installer (I'm using installer image to use Live CD mode for years, and the last time I've used the installer as installer, it was sysinstall(!). And often read Chapter 5 and later but not 4 and before. IIRC, at least on disc1 at the moment that had most of packages (of course, pre-pkg era) in it, sysinstall provided menu for selecting which packages the admin wants to be installed in post-installation configuration menu. I imagined the de-pkgbasifying menu to be shown just before it. But currently, post-Final Configuration (Chapter 2.8.7) but pre-"Complete" (allowing to choose from Reboot, Shutdown and Live CD) phase looks best fit. And I think the behavior you described looks reasonable here. Regards. -- Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]>
