About pkg install

[louies0623]

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#423 (comment)
I found that the suggestion you have been giving me is "sudo apk install softwarename" or from FreeBSD Ports, so why don't we build or add a GUI that is dedicated to installing tools, such as "Octopkg", and you have gui pkg installation.

That's what you said.

Porting software to FreeBSD is generally done in the FreeBSD Ports collection.

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Octopkg
https://github.com/aarnt/octopkg

[probonopd]

FreeBSD uses pkg not apk.

Using a package manager can be dangerous (requires root, can uninstall other packages including Xorg, etc.), and should hence be only for power users and developers.

For "normal users" we are envisioning a disk image based drag-and-drop "installation" method.

[louies0623]

Using a package manager can be dangerous (requires root, can uninstall other packages including Xorg, etc.), and should hence be only for power users and developers.

Then what the user needs is a pkg installation interface whose UI is a program that hides the system .

For "normal users" we are envisioning a disk image based drag-and-drop "installation" method.

So what file format should the software use?

[probonopd]

Something like .app bundles inside .img disk images or .zip files. Something that doesn't need root rights and can't mess with the operating system.

[louies0623]

Then you can make a similar package manager like this picture, It can not only hide the software built in the system, but also display only the software installed by the user.

[louies0623]

I have some ideas. If there is a way to automatically convert the source code into an execution format for BSD.APP without using the Internet, it would save developers the troublesome "conversion", so that more people can support BSD. program.