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Date:      Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:28:17 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rcs
Message-ID:  <5255A041.2080501@cran.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <52556567.3090309@mu.org>
References:  <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <20131008031517.GA31864@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <60177810-8DC4-4EA3-8040-A834B79039D2@orthanc.ca> <52538EDC.2080001@freebsd.org> <52541202.3010707@mu.org> <CA%2Bt49PK2-6UhOpgNUpaP9t7m6a_N7PF8yHaD-QWjLn_=gs1iOg@mail.gmail.com> <1893399957.20131009013424@serebryakov.spb.ru> <CA%2Bt49PLD9R7Y0KwEkKnWwKMnM-MWKWiCDQwcT8_Or7wPz0YDmQ@mail.gmail.com> <52556567.3090309@mu.org>

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On 10/9/2013 3:17 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Only a few years ago you could take a dvd or memstick of FreeBSD and 
> have 1000s of packages to choose from during your install.  That is 
> broken now?

At some point it was decided that the installer should be as simple as 
possible and package installation was a post-install task, for once the 
system was up and running. I think that might be changing with 
bsdinstall getting pkgng support, but it did seem like a fairly major 
regression at the time.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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