From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 09:18:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA27127 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 09:18:34 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA27121 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 09:18:32 -0800 Message-Id: <199503251718.JAA27121@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by crh.cl.msu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA02736; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 12:17:59 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Subject: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 12:17:58 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1429 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shipping the system with httpd/gopherd and other tools is a horrible idea. Whats wrong with keeping it as a standard port? Thats the BEST way to do it, especially given the wide variety of web servers out there (Personally NCSA's server is 10 times better than CERN's) and every joe user will want to install whichever they like best. How much more simple can it get to just go to the ports dir and do a make install? If you cant do that, you probably shouldnt be running a web server anyhow. Second problem, just who is going to decide "how" the server is configured, where the config/user files are actually placed on disk? Are we going to honestly stuff it right in the middle of the regular tree's or keep it nice and clean by placing it in /usr/local/web? How do you configure the subdirs? It seems to me that even if the server was shipped with FreeBSD, 85% of the folks would have to de-install the damn thing to get it installed "just how they like it". Keep these sorts of utilities as ports, please please, its much much cleaner that way. (Same thing holds for the clients, Im never gonna use Mosaic, Netscape is a thousand times better) -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/ Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/