Re: registration request

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sun, 08 Sep 2002 23:06:38 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Jarc (Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:41:05PM -0400):
>> misc/spf
>
> Is it really necessary to set up a second registry for packages?

It's not a second registry; it's a subregistry, like host/foo.com/.

> Why do you not register all of them using a prefix scheme, like
> CATEGORY/spf-PACKAGE ?

That would be more work, given how sp-foreign is already writen.  I'm
not interested in getting it just a little bit closer to the "right
way", since it won't ever be completely right as long as I'm doing the
slashpackagification instead of the package maintainers.  I want to
provide a slashpackage installation of, e.g., ed, but I don't care
about making it compatible with one provided later by the ed
maintainers, if they ever get on board.


paul