Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:23:48 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion requested: contents of "instant workstation" port Message-ID: <20011222032348.GA827@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <20011221160334.B11728@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011221160334.B11728@monorchid.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:03:34PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > Some months ago I added an "instant workstation" metaport, intended to > be installed by people who had bought my book. After the Wind River > fracas, I am finally getting back to finishing the fourth edition > of the book, and I'm reconsidering the content of the port. I'd be > grateful for any suggestions. I'm attaching the current text of the > chapter describing it. I'd like some opinions on things to remove or > add to the list. > > Greg > > Instant workstation > ______________________________________________________________________ > > The ``instant workstation'' port installs a number of the more popular > packages, and allows you to be productive right away. At a later > point you may find that you prefer other software, in which case you > can install it. > > The instant workstation includes the following packages: ...snip... > o cdrecord is a utility to burn CD-Rs. This needs a SCSI CD-R/RW so may not be usable by many. ...snip... > o emacs21 is the GNU Emacs editor recommended in this book. I personally like vim and think perhaps both should be included. I guess you have already weighed the pros and cons of emacs vs. xemacs. > o ghostscript is a PostScript interpreter. It can be used to display > PostScript on an X display, or to print it out on a non-PostScript > printer. I wonder if apsfilter would be appropriate here as well. ...snip... > o kde is the desktop environment recommended in this book. Would it be possible to give people a choice between KDE and GNOME; or both? I personally prefer XFCE but I am probably in the minority. ...snip... > o postfix is the mail transfer agent (MTA) recommended in this book. This would seem more appropriate for a server. Also, the user would then have to fiddle with getting sendmail disabled unless that is handled in the port. > o smbfs it is a complete kernel side implementation of SMB requester > and filesystem, used for accessing Microsoft's SMB file system. This is part of the base system. I think urlview would also be a good one to add as it integrates well with mutt. Along the same lines I think adding lynx or w3m for converting HTML mail inside of mutt would be good. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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