On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Anonymous wrote: > Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The emphasis that Florent made too was to remove crud in pkg_install >> and libpkg and get things down to more of a library form so we could >> develop thin wrappers above pkg_install with logical functions (like >> apt-get, yum, etc does with fetching, whereas rpm does with >> installation, etc), instead of maintaining pkg_install the way it is >> today. > > From perspective of a user I'd like those wrappers be written in a > scripted language so they're easy to hack. Because sh(1) doesn't have > smth like FFI we'd need one command that exports all functions from the > library. Some port managing tools could then bypass those wrappers when > doing complex tasks.
As long as we don't get into wrapper script hell (greater than 2 levels deep), sure :)._______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
