From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 03:42:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687C816A4CF for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from fisk.demonized.net (h97n2fls33o834.telia.com [213.66.186.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7890B43D1D for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from manlix@demonized.net) Received: from beard.demonized.net (beard.demonized.net [172.22.1.2]) by fisk.demonized.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i2HBgZLQ090875; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:42:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from manlix@demonized.net) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:42:32 +0100 From: Johan Pettersson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040317124232.617db171.manlix@demonized.net> In-Reply-To: <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125121.GC91150@abc.123.org> <20040315135725.3cc70f97.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: dev-null@NUXI.com Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:42:37 -0000 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:09:38 -0800 "David O'Brien" wrote: > Johan, > > 1. DON'T TOP POST, follow Netiquette (and trim what you quote). > 2. WRAP your lines, this is a traditional Unix based list -- lines > less > than 79 characters long, thank you very much > 3. Thank you for starting the monthly bikeshed. If you don't know how > much a bikeshed this is (or even what a 'bikeshed' is), go read the > archives. > 3. Sounds like you want Linux with its RPM's, not BSD. We consciously > don't wrap the base system in pkg_add tarballs. We generally LIKE > the entire system being a single integrated blob. Yes, it wraps at 72 characters now. And I don't know what a bikeshed is, never heard of it before. I just wanted to start a discussion about a feature that _I_ think would be good. Isn't that what the mailinglist is for? Discussion. And no, I don't want Linux. I like FreeBSD, but why should I have things that I don't use installed? Yes, you can use find(1) as mentioned by someone but it could be simplified. I apologize for everything bad this may have caused. It wasn't my intention. And I apologize for what I wrote in my first post: "This couldn't be too hard to implement. :)". It was ironic. Notice the ":)". But I should think twice before writing something like that next time.