package manager lanugage (was: Re: PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release)

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[quoting repaired]

Jonas Trollvik wrote:
> > > I'd like to support Andreas here, on general assumption that 50 
> > > megs of supporting packages is nothing if the tool (language) 
> > > itself is appropriate for the job and if the tools has a fairly 
> > > wide support. Recognized, supported and stable is what lisp seems
> > >  like to me.
> > I thought Dragonfly was diverging from a bloated base. perl was 
> > removed from the base system, but adding a 50 meg dep is nothing?
> I too would prefer to see the base as clean as possible

Nobody said anything about adding stuff to base.  I think a package 
manager even should be implemented as a self-bootstrapping package. 
Otherwise it's really hard to update the package manager itself on 
release branches etc.

cheers
  simon

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