From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 22:23:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA07576 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 22:23:10 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA07566; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 22:23:05 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA26620; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 23:27:14 -0700 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 23:27:14 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199503250627.XAA26620@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Re: httpd as part of the system." (Mar 24, 2:50pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We can always cater to the folks who *want* the stuff right now with > > packages. However, we can't make the distribution smaller if we add it > > to the 'standard' tree w/out a way to NOT install it. > > Already done. Cool. > Hey, Nate, have you installed a FreeBSD box lately? :-) Obviously not. The last 'install' I did was 2.0R. Everything since then has been incremental updates from -current. > We only "make" them install the bindist. Everything else is purely > optional. The *bindist* is still a monster, and you're proposing that we add two more large binaries to it. We need to break up the bindist into smaller more managable pieces ala Linux, SCO, Unixware, etc... Nate