[companion-discuss] Re: [ports-discuss] Draft: Open Package Management Proposal

[Steve Stallion]

Absolutely. That was a big goal in the proposal, even if it was not stated.

Essentially a pre built package was a package built by pkgbuild with
the default options.


On 5/14/07, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:43:43AM -0500, Steve Stallion wrote:
>
> > Danek/All,
> >
> > I would like to see a couple of high level requirements added (I am
> > not sure of the appropriate bullet points to place these under) to
> > this list:
> >
> > 1. Users should have the ability to install the same bit of software
> > either by source or by a pre-build package.
> >
> > 2. Installing a source-built package should allow for customization of
> > options (similar to pkgbuild now).
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I think they're great goals, but Stephen and I are trying to separate the
> build system from the packaging system.  The idea is that the two would act
> as two pieces in a pipeline to the final product, either of which would be
> interchangeable.  Thus pkgbuild could feed into the packaging system, yet
> be independent.  Heck, maybe even "make install" could.
>
> Danek
>