packaging system
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sat Nov 1 11:11:40 PST 2003
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:I like the idea of standardizing everything, but I think theres two separat=
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:battles to be fought. Theres the idea of package building and binary=20
:distribution if you ask me. Ports currently does both, and I dont think th=
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:option to build from source should be taken away from the user, but a 486=20
:router does not want to build apache, even if they want to run it. Making=
The wonderful things about my VFS environment idea is that it works
equally well for source AND binary management. Instead of special-casing
build time, install time, and run-time requirements, all three can be
maintained using the same set of VFS abstraction tools.
-Matt
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