-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 8/24/2012 1:15 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > BTW for people who haven't tested and want to share their opinion, > here is how work /usr/sbin/pkg: > > it first checks if ${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg is there - if yes it > directly execute ${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg with arguments passed to > /usr/sbin/pkg As others have already pointed out, this is a bad idea for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is security related. It also removes one of the primary benefits of pkg, that it be (fully) hosted in the ports tree. The bootstrap procedure does not need to be simple or transparent because it's only going to exist for a very short period while users are bringing pkg into already-installed systems where pkg is not already the default; and they don't have an existing ports tree. The way that you solve the bootstrap problem for systems where pkg IS the default is to install the pkg package at system install time. Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to need the bootstrapping tool that will be in the base. Making it mandatory for *every* user is therefore not only a bad idea, it's contrary to one of the primary goals of the project. Doug - -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQOAJpAAoJEFzGhvEaGryEY2QH/2Hv+cW20htODBTrFNScd7qS NxBc7YHr3ddoyoui+Qwtl3ErjMOJr+kA3nRSsZ5ewGN5HVQ4gCAWp76bJn75BM71 q2Qmgx7HCnBMJKrmRTvDAA1nJcTKAgXFKK8hYQgiTOhWFaIjJxhDlln5llFcXwBa VN0ErF421FkD8oyHpcQLga1BHLtldOL5itt/4Tp9cKaC5l2P9dBNbyCTxVa4XBiZ tsK+x7XJqwj0NvXLk+b3icLIEeyopa3TJAoAtXZ27igg65norCoh2EPo7aJqP2zY T75PKdbRJprwCpeJXulC02oZu/UERoIMLeaH1JbCZRcLAqaCJQuEGSP95as3hSY= =BEya -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Fri Aug 24 2012 - 20:38:38 UTC
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