On Thu, May 7, 2009 12:23 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This is like the third recent patch that has stuff which we > can't really integrate into the base tree. I'm also thinking > of the kqemu stuff. > > I'm thinking of creating a new sub-directory, /usr/src/stuff, > which would be similar to /usr/src/test... a place where we can put > 'stuff' that can't be integrated into the base tree but which > we also do not want to lose.
I'm not sure about kqemu - it's very useful, but since it's a kernel module, it has a different status. However, pkg_dry is a "normal" software application, and I suspect will turn into a pkgsrc package quickly. If that's the case, we could just install it along with other packages as part of the installer. Keeping it in a /usr/src/ dir could cause some minor headaches in terms of updating it, so pushing it into pkgsrc solves that nicely. In fact, would it be worth packaging DragonFly-specific items in pkgsrc format even if they weren't in pkgsrc CVS? It'd give us some ready-to-go management tools for software maintenance.
