Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

From: Steve Wills <swills_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:55:18 -0400
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills <swills_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills <swills_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"?
>>> 
>>> Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;)
>> 
>> The possibility of bad docs somewhere outside of our control, when we can (and I am actively working on) document(ing) pkgng for the handbook seems kinda thin. It's not even "Something's wrong on the Internet!" (http://xkcd.com/386/), it's "Something might some day be wrong on the Internet!"
> 
> It isn't a problem of bad docs. Its a problem of the user following
> some not-for-new-systems documentation and getting very confused when
> they see "command not found.". It is practically the definition of
> POLA.

As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#POLA-GLOSSARY

So this isn't POLA, it's documentation.

Steve
Received on Fri Aug 24 2012 - 00:55:29 UTC

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