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

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Fri Mar 4 18:02:57 UTC 2016


<<On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 01:09:49 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> said:

>> I'm not convinced that it makes
>> much sense to have all the different -lib32-* variants given the
>> normal use case is runtime-only.

> For those who have no need for lib32 stuff, we do not want to enforce
> its existence.

You may have missed my point: I was suggesting that the lib32 stuff be
packed into fewer packages, because the places where it is needed are
less likely to want fine-grained selection.  So just having a single
package with all the "runtime" packages would be closer to what most
people needed (and likewise for the "development" etc. libraries which
are almost never useful).

-GAWollman



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