Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:57:19 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040317065013.03b765a0@imap.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <4057D767.2090107@freebsd.org> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125710.GK797@camelot.theinternet.com.au> <20040315140153.30348b1e.manlix@demonized.net> <nt1xntb68t.xnt@mail.comcast.net> <4057D767.2090107@freebsd.org>
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At 04:43 17/03/2004, Scott Long wrote: >FreeBSD is an operating >system. It is not a kernel with interchangeable userland pieces. Nor, I think, do many users want a kernel with interchangeable userland pieces. What I hear from many users, however, is that they would like an operating system with optional pieces -- so that they could sysinstall FreeBSD without sendmail, named, or doscmd (to take a random example). Colin Percival
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