Re: registration request

> now i wonder how "the consumer" would use the system.  is it really as
> simple as downloading the packages and using eg. your sp-tools to get
> the whole show rolling?

 I think we are not there yet - not at all - but we are slowly working
towards that.
 The "consumer" will _never_ use a /package-based system if there is no
definition of a base system, no automated tools, no install CD or such,
and so on. We are still in the process of building the tools and
thinking of what belongs where. Paul's sp-tools looks like it's meant
to become the central part of a distribution, i.e. the package manager.
And misc/spf is quite similar to a ports system.


> what would be a rational approach to transforming any type of the many
> linux distributions into a rational, "djb"-style system with
> daemontools etc.?

 One of the benefits of /package is that it's not system-dependent.
Creating a (scalable) Linux distribution conforming to /package would
be great, but I'd rather focus on having every part of my /package
installation working before wondering what Unix kernel to use with it.
 That said, we aren't there yet. We still need a clever way to store
users (userdir looks promising), to perform authentication, etc.
Every time I look at Unix, I can't help but wonder how such brilliant
conceptual ideas could lead to such crappy software as the tools that
come with our Unix systems.

-- 
 Ska