On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:27PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > The point is that the real problem is: "how do you arrange the bits on > > disk", not "how do you wrap that in a package system". Until you > > figure out a workable on-disk arrangement for the files, questions > > about packaging are not relevant. And it seems that option 1 is the > > only workable one in practise (unless you have some other idea), which > > can easily be achieved today with a couple of hours of kernel hacking. > > There are clearly other workable ideas - as I said, the linux folks > managed to make it work. But it's not an easy problem. I certainly > wouldn't suggest rebuilding the packaging system to deal with this, > except as part of a larger effort. On the other hand, since people are > working on the ports/package system (I see port/pkg database and some > ports infrastructure work in the current SoC projects list), not > keeping this goal in mind would seem to be a bit short-sighted. I > wouldn't be surprised if your option #1 could benefit from this as > well.
But you said you were interested in working on it...so what is your idea? Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
