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

On Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:37:53 pm Doug Barton wrote:
> The problem is that we don't really support the idea of things in the
> base magically deleting themselves.
> 
> As I have said in previous messages, the bootstrapping problem is being
> overblown by several orders of magnitude. For newly installed systems
> where pkg is the default, /usr/local/bin/pkg will be installed. So there
> is no bootstrapping problem.
> 
> For already-installed systems who wish to switch to pkg, they can
> install from /usr/ports, or use the pkg bootstrap tool in the base.
> Given that they will be intentionally making this change, and there will
> be instructions written up on how to do this which include the
> bootstrapping step, once again this is a non-issue.
> 
> The whole idea of having every call to /usr/local/sbin/pkg pass through
> /usr/sbin/pkg in order to help a tiny minority of users with a one-time
> bootstrapping issue is just plain ludicrous.

I agree.  Even if we keep /usr/sbin/pkg, we will presumably want to remove
it from the base in a year or so via 'make delete-old', etc.  Given that,
I'm not sure we need it there in the first place.

-- 
John Baldwin