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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:42:32 +0100
From:      Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        dev-null@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: Pkg-based base system.
Message-ID:  <20040317124232.617db171.manlix@demonized.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125121.GC91150@abc.123.org> <20040315135725.3cc70f97.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:09:38 -0800
"David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> wrote:

> Johan,
> 
> 1. DON'T TOP POST, follow Netiquette (and trim what you quote).
> 2. WRAP your lines, this is a traditional Unix based list -- lines
> less
>    than 79 characters long, thank you very much
> 3. Thank you for starting the monthly bikeshed.  If you don't know how
>    much a bikeshed this is (or even what a 'bikeshed' is), go read the
>    archives.
> 3. Sounds like you want Linux with its RPM's, not BSD.  We consciously
>    don't wrap the base system in pkg_add tarballs.  We generally LIKE
>    the entire system being a single integrated blob.

Yes, it wraps at 72 characters now. And I don't know what a bikeshed is,
never heard of it before. I just wanted to start a discussion about
a feature that _I_ think would be good. Isn't that what the mailinglist
is for? Discussion. And no, I don't want Linux. I like FreeBSD, but why
should I have things that I don't use installed? Yes, you can use
find(1) as mentioned by someone but it could be simplified.

I apologize for everything bad this may have caused. It wasn't my
intention. And I apologize for what I wrote in my first post:
"This couldn't be too hard to implement. :)". It was ironic. Notice the
":)". But I should think twice before writing something like that next
time.



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