On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:02:47AM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> > > Are there any plans to produce frontend scripts (syspkg_add, ...)
> > > to be used with syspkg? It's easy for forget the PKG_DBDIR setting
> > > from the command line...
> >
> > Is there special magic necessary to handle syspkg packages? Why
> > can't we just use existing pkg_* tools (or extend them)?
> 
> 1) Hard to find a good "name" for the switch (-s and -S are used)
> 2) No modification to the normal pkg_* utilities, thus no risk of
>    breaking things (especially so close to 1.6 freeze)
> 3) People find it easier(?) and more natural to use syspkg_* (this is
>    just a poll of 5 different people, myself and few others, result: 4-1)
>    instead of the "pkgsrc utilities" (some of my friends associate
>    pkg_* to pkgsrc and only to it).

For example, how can we deal with sendmail packages, one from syspkg
and another from pkgsrc? Is it possible to update syspkg package to
pkgsrc package or vice versa?

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>