From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 03:48:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9FE16A4BF; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71BD43FE0; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0895210BFAA; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:48:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:48:20 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Colin Percival Message-ID: <20030831104819.GA395@FreeBSD.org> References: <3F5193E2.8060805@carebears.mine.nu> <3F50C956.70603@carebears.mine.nu> <20030830151544.G21642@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <3F5193E2.8060805@carebears.mine.nu> <5.0.2.1.1.20030830235954.02dd9620@popserver.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030830235954.02dd9620@popserver.sfu.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Christer Solskogen cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strip FreeBSD a bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:48:26 -0000 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.08.31 00:09:47 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > packaging system. Ideally, things like sendmail and bind would be taken= =20 > out of the base system, and sysinstall would offer people the option of= =20 As stated in the archives, bind can't just be removed due to the resolver code being used in libc. > installing sendmail/qmail/exim/portfix/nothing and bind/djbdns/nothing; f= or=20 Bernsteins programs can't be distributed, since we are not allowed to distribute modified binary versions. Besides, sysinstall in 5.x actually allows to install exim/postfix to use instead of sendmail. Sysinstall doesn't remove sendmail, but it's just not used. > that matter, most things under contrib/ are probably good candidates for= =20 > removing from base. > The problem, of course, is actually getting it done. A lot of the things in contrib/ are important to normal operation of a FreeBSD system, e.g. compilers, groff (for manual pages) and many more. Well, I guess that was enough repeating of what's in the archives multiple times already :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UdJzh9pcDSc1mlERAlkoAJ0Y5cS9WLl/Bu0cPGcXHiuinPg6BgCgprW8 8lFXNuMLYWjLB3q1tz2R6Qk= =ZIrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--