From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 21:40:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24434 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:40:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cactus.verinet.com (cactus.verinet.com [204.144.246.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24421 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Received: from verinet.com ([206.168.245.19]) by cactus.verinet.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18788; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 22:40:44 -0700 Message-ID: <36B7E152.8C1364FC@verinet.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 22:40:34 -0700 From: Allen Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On Desktops and defaults References: <199902021904.MAA07243@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Just a note before arguments get momentum: > > > > Offcourse, whenever possible, anyone responsible for such changes into the > > BSD system, like those we discussed the last 48 hours about KDE and default > > desktops, will make sure that whatever he adds to the install process will > > made modular so that no desktop will get major preference above the other. > > > > Doing otherwise might IMHO violate the principle that is Unix, e.g. > > customisable to the max with nothing forced down ones throat. > > You mean like SMTP is modular? > > Seriously, the way to get momentum is to pull in the same direction, > for better or for worse. Rely on the meritocracy here; If someone 'out there' can put together a decent Blackbox or WindowMaker desktop which a consensus of FreeBSD can live with, more power to 'em. The work should be a peer with anything else offered to the user, KDE or otherwise. The port/packages system is already flexible enough to deal with this. Standards should be suitably high however. -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message