Hi all,
if you are running one of the release branches and are using pkg_install
outside the scope of pkgsrc, please continue reading. Otherwise feel
free to ignore this mail.

Over the years pkg_install has been extended with new features and
continues to evolve. Some of them are very important and useful for
every pkgsrc user (like the upcoming merge of audit-pkgsrc in a much
faster implementation from Adrian). Other changes related to the cleanup
actively break backwards compatibility by removing supposed to be unused
functions.

Already removed in the current version are:
- part of the backend to support multiple @cwd directives
- pkg_create doesn't allow require scripts any longer, support in
pkg_add and pkg_info will be removed at a later point.n
- pkg_create -h and -X were dropped

To be removed soon:
- support for master/slave mode 
- pkg_create -l, either to be made the default or not
- pkg_create -m and corresponding code in pkg_add later, this was
retired after the 2007Q2 branch.

In general, pkg_create is considered to be a backend for pkgsrc and will
be changed accordingly.

The purpose of this mail is to find out whether anyone would actually
care and make her/him aware of the planned pullups for pkg_install to
the release branches (netbsd-[234]).

Please CC on replies.

Joerg