Re: Remove BIND, Sendmail, Perl and etc from base?

[Peter da Silva <peter-dragonfly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> At least for the packages there are good reasons for not using tarballs.
> Tarballs are not really good for streaming. E.g. you want to install
> a package from ftp, you are an innocent first time user of the package
> and it fills some of your partitions and installation fails. With a
> real streaming format, pkg_add could verify that before installing the
> package and the same is true for conflict checks (which might become
> obsolete with layered/virtual filesystems). An archive format with
> leading filelist is the best for such a job.

The leading file-list doesn't need to be provided by the archive format:
just make sure there's a "+CONTENTS" file first in the archive.

> Well to add the idea of dynamic root, I suggest something like:
> - rescue => contains /stand with static versions of /bin and /sbin

That looks like a duplicate of /sbin, which ahould be static anyway, ne?

> - base_lib => contains /lib, /lib/ld.so, /usr/lib
> - base_sbin => contains /sbin and /usr/sbin
> - base_bin
> - base_devel => /usr/include and /usr/lib/*.a
> - third party packages

If you're going to have packages that contain conglomerations of things
in / and /usr, why bother with the distinction between / and /usr?