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Re: The ports-system and userland in general.


From: Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:06:20 +0100

walt wrote:

If DFly becomes the de facto standard BSD system (which I truly believe
will happen in three to five years) it will attract enough talented ports
maintainers to support any ports system that DFly may elect to support.

Until that day comes, I vote for keeping the FreeBSD ports system.

Add my vote to this.
In the past years quite a few packaging system came up, often with the goal of much improving what was before. Despite these efforts, we are still at the point that the ports collection is the "less worst" we have. And it is one of the older, that should make us sober (and bow to jkh) ...


We will definitly not find the magic solution overnight. Therefore we should run two efforts in parallel.

- One that defines features we must/should have in an ideal system, and try to put it together, without pressure.
- Another one which puts an order of priority on these desired features, and tries to add them incrementaly to the current port collection.


Advantages:
- This way, new features are put to test before we end up with a complete, elegant system which unfortunatly again is out of touch with reality in such subtle ways that it is unusable or at best improves nothing.
- We cannot determine which approach will bring the new package system of our dreams, so let's try both at once.


Note that this doesn't not prevent us from fundamentaly altering the port's collection's mechanisms, as long as the ports' tree stays compatible or convertable by some tool on update. Maybe we should dissecate the ports collection, and refactor it, maybe using something cleaner than make/Makefiles, but I digress... ;)

my two cents

Raphael



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