DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-07
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Re: Remove BIND, Sendmail, Perl and etc from base?
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:47:31 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> The eventual goal is to make *ALL* userland applications, including
> things like cp, ls, etc... all operate through the packaging system,
> and remember that it is the packaging system's goal to support
> installation of multiple versions of anything without conflict.
>
> This will be a big sub-project in DragonFly... to rip up the whole
> buildworld system and replace it with a packaging system, but one that
> I think needs to be delayed until we can actually implement the
> packaging system, which in turn will require the ability to operate
> userland VFSs (for the 'environment's I keep talking about). There is
> no reason to rip the apps out now because we have nothing to replace
> them with until the packaging system is ready to go. I'm talking
> probably a 6-12 month time frame for this stage.
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