From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 7:27:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7FC37B401 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4C743E65 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g76ERYKr090396 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:27:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17c5J7-0003T8-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 09:27:33 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: 06 Aug 2002 09:27:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87wur4m59m.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-08-06T12:42:02Z, John Bleichert writes: > Correct, but having an 'instant-workstation' option in the ports > collection doesn't help a new user. I thought it was being discussed as a > possible installation option? sysinstall already has a section for adding packages; surely it would just be a matter of adding 'instant-worksection' to the list of packages that sysinstall knows about? -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message