[desktop-discuss] [pkg-discuss] Modify pkgbuild to make IPS images

[Stephen Hahn]

* Philip Brown <ppb at usc.edu> [2007-10-22 16:52]:
> Joe Di Pol wrote:
> > Danek Duvall wrote:
> >>>...
> >> The way we'd intended to do these was to dump everything into a single
> >> package, tag files appropriately, and use filters to install selectively.
> >> That is,
> >>
> >>     file path=usr/lib/libsdl.so.1
> >>     file path=usr/lib/libsdl.so devel=true
> >>     directory path=usr/include/sdl devel=true
> >>     file path=usr/include/sdl/sdl.h devel=true
> >>     file path=usr/man/man3/libsdl.3 docs=true
> >>
> >> etc.  Locale-specific packages would be handled similarly, but there you'd
> >> have a "locale" tag which would specify the locale a particular file
> >> belonged to.
> > 
> > I wonder if this is a case were technical elegance is getting in the way
> > of familiarity and usability. Tagging and filtering appear to have some
> > excellent use cases, but I'm not sure using them to functionally organize
> > a package is one.
> > 
> > Folks are pretty familiar with the concept of a package name reflecting
> > what it contains, and being able to use that name to get what they want.
> > It's hard to see how filtering is better than "pkg install foo-docs"
> > 
> 
> Yup. wearing my "plain user" hat rather than my "developer" hat, I much 
> prefer typing
> 
> pkg install foo-devel
> 
> rather than
> 
> pkg install foo devel=true
> 
> It's an existing de facto standard of behaviour, and users are comfortable 
> with it already. Dare I say, "expect it".

  Actually, the default filter settings are part of the image
  configuration.  So, if you wanted developer content, you'd ask for it
  once, on all packages, for that image.

  - Stephen

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