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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:33:07 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removing the junk.
Message-ID:  <201006220833.07071.bruce@cran.org.uk>
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On Tuesday 22 June 2010 03:14:28 Randi Harper wrote:

> Configure ->
>   Packages - There are several problems with this.
>     - sysinstall is obviously not meant to work with a ports tree as
> big as what we've got.
>     - If we're going to offer the option to install a ports tree, we
> shouldn't be using one that will just be overwritten should portsnap
> be used.
>     - We should encourage users to use portsnap instead. We're being
> blocked on this because something about portsnap and release bits -
> I'm not sure. But I need to bug cperciva@.

But packages != ports.  I don't think we can require everyone to build 
applications from source, despite the problems with packages.

-- 
Bruce



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