Re: pkg_dry on DragonFlyBSD

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 12:48 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Hmm.  Maybe.  I'm not so worried about updating... the idea is that
>     the stuff in /usr/src/stuff is not integrated into the build, it's just
>     a place to save things.  Once that thing gets integrated elsewhere it
>     can be removed from /usr/src/stuff.
>
>     Having a local package sub-tree is an interesting idea.

I'm remembering the troubles from perl being packaged into FreeBSD4 - the
problem wasn't the language, or the use of it, but the fact that it was
desynchronized from ports, yet had many ports dependent on it.

I've never packaged a pkgsrc item, so I don't know how much extra labor it
would be, but it would certainly make things easy for everyone else who
wasn't doing the packaging.  It would also allow us to have things
included in the system that could be updated or changed outside of system
upgrade schedules.