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Old 23rd August 2012
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Originally Posted by da1 View Post
You might wanna have a look into pkgng. It will be the default for version 10 (I think) and u can use it for version 9 too.
IMHO, if ( v11 == ( mandatory deprecate-/var/db/pkg )) occurs as some expect, it amounts to
a fork of freebsd to be more windows-like, as in "rather than /usr/local/etc
we have a registry" (I read once a post or webpage calling that a very
unwise design)... or as in "pkg_add has been enhanced to include portupgrade,
(19 .so. vs 3...) so portmaster, /var/db/pkg/, portmanager, portupgrade, one's
find/grep/awk/less manipulations of /var/db/pkg (python26 > python27 for
example), are all done away with; and a greater chance of irrecoverable
data loss [1] and a database FE to the flat files)... (pkg segfaults on my p4 in some
of the non-default cli; may be too memory-intensive for p2, p3 installs ... )etc...
I posted today a large post to the freebsd-ports list, and a post also to the
freebsd forums (thread: "Please explain to me")...

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Please see the posts on those lists and the forum, where I go into greater detail.
Someday I could retract all these misgivings, but seeing no direct answers so far
I am pessimistic, to say the least...
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