From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 13:57:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18A7037B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:57:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH poptime) at ?@.aging.cpaaa.org (HELO there) (165.201.71.250) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2002 21:57:38 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Justin L. Boss" Reply-To: jlboss@yahoo.com To: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making suggestions Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:01:01 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <33993602@toto.iv> <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020228215739.18A7037B417@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm willing to be the sacrificial lab, what list should I ask if this is the right list to be used for making suggestions or not? On Thursday 28 February 2002 03:49 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:14:32PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > If PR's are OK for suggestions, I'd have to guess that freebsd-bugs > > would be too, since that's that place of last resort for those not > > willing to write PRs. But I wouldn't try discussing the suggestion > > on freebsd-bugs; I'd take that to a subject-appropriate site, though > > that's not always clearly obvious, and I'm still not sure what would > > be appropriate for non-technical-list-covered enhancements; the charters > > of -chat, -hackers, -current, -questions all seem to exclude it. > > That is the problem. > If you find a bug, or have an enhancement, have ported something etc... > then it is all fairly obvious what to do. > > However, consider the following (and this is not meant to start a debate > about this on this list, I use this for illustrative purposes). > > There have been recent rumblings about missing KDE components on the > ISO's. It't been discussed, and said a few times that there is only so > much room on a CD. > So I get to think, what is on the CD, looking at /usr/bin I see several > things that by no stretch of the imagination could be described as > essential. The example I gave is F77. Now if I want to suggest that a > re-examination be made of what constitutes the base distribution, and to > turf off out fripperies like F77 to whom do I suggest it ? In fact if I > suggest that the time has come for a lot of things that are in /usr/bin > to start justifying their existance who is going to listen to me ? > > As Gary points out above there seems to be no forum for this. > > To *repeat* this is not meant to start a discussion on F77... :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message