Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

On 04/19/16 20:15, Warner Losh wrote:
>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Matthew Grooms <mgrooms_at_shrew.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/19/2016 3:09 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> As far as I know, nobody is taking the source code or the Makefiles
>>> away, so if somebody doesn't like the system being distributed with
>>> pkg, they can very well roll their own.
>>>
>>> It's nice to see the level of enthusiasm the FreeBSD project can
>>> muster, I just wish it wasn't always enthusiasm for stopping progress.
>>>
>> Maybe I missed an email in this thread, but I don't recall anyone completely rejecting the idea of packaging the base system. What I see is a discussion related to doing it in the best way possible.
> Sadly the tenor and tone of the discussion isn’t one where progress is made. The tone has been a bit toxic and demanding, which grinds people into dust, rather than motivating them to fix things. You might call it a discussion, but it reads to me more as a bunch of angry villagers storming the castle. No good can come from that. Tone down the outrage by a factor of 100 and try to have the conversation again.
>
> Warner

Yes, and that tone raises everyone's defensive hackles, which is never 
good. I'm going to make a patch for a reduced package count and 
hopefully we can restart this discussion then.

It would also be nice to get a statement of what the intended scope of 
these patches is from some of the people involved in the project. It's a 
major change to the system and it would be nice to have some kind of 
architectural document about what is happening. I'm not sure, for 
instance, what the release for 11 looks like with these changes, what 
changes need to be made to the installer (something of particular 
interest to me), how we build install media now that base is no longer 
self-contained (due to lack of pkg), what specific problems were 
intended to be solved, how package dependencies work, etc. Something 
like a few-page white paper would be *really* helpful for those of us 
who weren't at the BSDcan where this was discussed. Even a wiki page 
would help a lot.
-Nathan