Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:30:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Some thoughts and ideas, and quirks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970803003007.1707E-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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As I was installing FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP970618, I noticed a few things that should probably be corrected, and a few things I'd like to offer my opinion on ;). 1.) The boot.help file on the boot.flp image incorrectly states when describing the -cv option that c displays verbose messages and that -v enteres a kernel configurator. 2.) The default motd says that the FAQ and Handbook are in the info distribution (they're in the doc distrib, I think. Still can't find em). 3.) I noticed that the bundled sendmail is 8.8.5, 8.8.6 is the latest. Same with tcl 7.5 (vs 7.6p2) and perl 4?!?! (5.003 or so), and pppd is now at 2.3.1 (or so). Perhaps these should be upgraded since all the latest versions are stable. I also noticed that there are still packages that depend on tk 4.1, and some on 4.2, meaning i have two copies of tk installed. 4.) This has probably been debated endlessly, however I'd like to offer my two cents. I honestly think that rpm style packages (meaning no more split up tarballs, and no huge 70mb bin distrib) are way more convenient and easier to manage. This would let me download a minimum of things, and still get a working system, instead of gcc, and the works, and be a lot more descriptive. On the other hand, I noticed that the x packages installed quicker (they're in .tgz format not split up tarballs) off my fat partition than did the huge tarballs 100+k/s faster on average. 5.) On the whole bsd vs sysv init scheme. Since I'm sure that there is no chance of FreeBSD inherriting a sysv style init, I was wonderin if maybe a comprimise would be in order? Perhaps having the bsd scripts, turn into sysv style directories so rc.i386 is a directory and contains things like say S52linuxemu, etc, etc. Comments? 6.) Also, while tinkering with Debian, I really liked the menu config for the kernel vs the text file that *bsd* uses. IMO this would be great to integrate into FreeBSD. Also due to the nature of Linux, I really did like the ability to easily keep multiple kernel source configurations, along with multiple kernel sources. Perhaps something with libdialog could be worked out. - alex
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