Re: Binary packages on NetBSD: Importing pkg(8) from FreeBSD?

["OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:15:29 +0900, Justin Sherrill <justin%shiningsilence.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
>
> > As pkg(8) "only" deals with binary packages, this would be complimentary
> > to the existing pkg_* tools that come with pkgsrc, i.e. it's use would be
> > optional.
> >
> > Is anyone besides me interested in such work and would be able/willing to
> > spend some amount of time on this?
>
> I am interested but cannot commit time.  The point that nobody's made, I
> think, is that I think it would be advantageous to have a common syntax
> between BSDs for package management, for all the BSDs.  Having multiple
> tools in the format pkg_?.{3,8} or similar isn't making life better in any
> way.

Yea!

From such tool names, users have a misunderstanding that pkgsrc's pkg_*
tools are equal to former FreeBSD port's one then poor than pkg(8) now.

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