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

[Danek Duvall]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:51:47AM -0700, Philip Brown wrote:

> 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

And I think I'd rather specify in the image configuration that I wanted
developer packages, and never have to worry about it again.

That said, there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone naming their packages
however they want and sticking whatever content they want in them.

> It's an existing de facto standard of behaviour, and users are
> comfortable with it already. Dare I say, "expect it".

Just because someone's used to something doesn't mean that it's the right
thing, or that they wouldn't appreciate something better.  Again,
personally, I've always appreciated the granularity of the "sub-packages",
but thought they were awkward and easy to forget.  I'd love not to have to
have them at all.

Danek