On 27-08-2012 18:24, John Baldwin wrote: > 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. What if you pkg_delete \* or rm -rf /usr/local? Do you have to "reboot" pkg then?
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