From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Feb 17 1:52:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EB537B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:52:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA05958; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:46:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA8eayHl; Sat Feb 17 02:46:39 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA28641; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:51:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102170951.CAA28641@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:51:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Feb 17, 2001 04:35:39 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'd really like to see the wall between "base" and "ports" broken down. > > base system > layered software packages > 3rd party software packages > > Humm... I seem to recall another OS that did this sort of thing -20- years > ago. SCO did this. The source code for their system is up on their site, and has been for almost two years now. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message