On 31 Aug 2012 13:15, "John Baldwin" <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: > > > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >>> > > > > > > I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the idea of a > > > self-installing package, at least for the pkg stuff itself, addresses > > > the issue that someone else brought up about how to handle installation > > > of pkg by the installer for a new system. > > > > I like the idea of also providing a self-installing package, and it seems > > really > > easy to do, so I'll try to see what I can do in this area I'll wrote a PoC > > in 5 > > minutes which looks pretty good, this could also be a very simple and easy > > way > > to integrate into bsdinstaller. > > > > I'll do work in that direction. > > > > Still it doesn't solve the problem of boostrapping pkgng in a fresh new box, > > because the user may not know where to download the pkg-setup.sh. > > I do think that is something bsdinstall should be able to handle, and I would > certainly want bsdinstall to include a dialog that says "do you want to > install > the package manager?"
Putting aside my previous emotional red herring, this is a great idea; I don't see how it's different from a base binary, but OK. I don't see the need to be prompted-- it's not like the base system doesn't have other larger amounts of software that is useless to many. Can't it just go in? Chris _______________________________________________ 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"
