Darren Reed wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:32:37PM +0200, Darren Reed wrote:
Why isn't pkg(5) providing the file assembly through its own
architecture?
How would the packaging system know how to assemble files that it has
never seen before, and do so in an intelligent manner without having any
knowledge of the file formats?
One might ask the very same question of using SMF for that task.
How can SMF assemble a file it has never seen before?
Why can we teach SMF to do this but not pkg?
Because SMF services can run various methods in the context of the
running system, using software delivered as part of that system.
For pkg(5) on build 111 to be able to merge files in build 150
at install time, we would have to either 1) republish an
enhanced pkg(5) to all previous builds every time a new file
was changed or introduced, or 2) just run code supplied by
package developers in install context. We _will_ _not_ do 2),
and 1) sounds like a hell of a lot of work to no good end.
- Bart
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