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

[Nikolai Lifanov]

On 03/04/16 13:20, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:02:55PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> <<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).
>>
> 
> You're right, I did miss your point.
> 
> I see what you mean now.  It's not impossible to do, but will require
> a bit of tweaking to the script that generates the metadata files.
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion.
> 
> Glen
> 

During BSDCan 2015, bapt@ said that there would be meta-packages for
this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/attachments/321_packaging-base.pdf

It would satisfy this type of use with:
# pkg remove FreeBSD-lib32  <-- removes meta-package
# pkg autoremove            <-- removes dependencies

Then there can be tweaking with "pkg set -A ..." for these that want
a specific library gone or present.

- Nikolai Lifanov