first release date

[Matthew Dillon]

::Yes, late in the month.  Would end-of-year may be feasible for
::VFS/packaging?  That's a question for the folks working on it, which may be
::better asked on, say, July 1st.
:
:    I've been thinking about packaging seriously for the last few days and
:    the more I think about it, the more I think we should just port Debian's
:    apt-get, enforce a multi-installed-version capability (e.g. for libraries),
:    and then focus on bringing patches into that framework.
:
:    We'll definitely not have a packaging system in the first release, but 
:    I think having something by the end of the year is doable (and a good
:    goal).

    Or, even better... use the VFS environment idea as a course-grained
    feature used to promote isolation and separation, and then use apt-get
    within the environment.

    So the 'apache user' might only have 10 ports installed (and only access
    to those 10) while a GUI user might have 50 ports installed (and only
    access to those 50).  Overlaps would be allowed... the environments would
    be considered independant.

    Such environments would also enforce basic isolation/separation/security
    features such as "/usr is read-only except for /usr/local", and would
    be stackable, but instead of trying to use them on a per-package basis
    we would use them on a per-user basis (or something like that).

    This gives us the best of both worlds in my view.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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