On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:08:22AM -0700, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > One of the biggest weaknesses of the FreeBSD Ports Collection is that, > unlike RPM or DEB based systems, one port cannot easily create a set > of complementary binary packages. > > A richer package system nicely allows users to select options also for > binary packages, not just ports, and combined with proper dependencies > and concepts like "recommends" and "provides" is both safe and flexible. > > (Think of -devel and -doc packages as general concepts supported by that.) > > Is anyone looking into this for FreeBSD? > This was discussed at BSDCan, not necessarily as a replacement for slave ports, but as a more flexible solution. It may be possible to leverage the fakeroot installation in PKGNG for this later, but for now we want to concentrate on getting PKGNG ready as a viable replacement of the current pkg_* tools and add this and other features later.
A more elaborate summary of what was discussed at the ports and packages summit will be send later after folks get a chance to get home. -erwin -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future [email protected]
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