Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:17:58 -0500 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "Sven Esbjerg" <esbjerg@xbsd.net> Subject: RE: Pkg-based base system. Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E8683A@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: David O'Brien [mailto:dev-null@NUXI.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:11 AM > To: Sven Esbjerg > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. >=20 >=20 > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:03:57PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > > If the freebsd team is positive towards having parts of=20 > freebsd as packages I > > would like to commit some time into making this possible.=20 > Maybe not for 5.3 > > but for later releases. >=20 > I for one, am negative towards having parts of [base] freebsd as > packages. > =20 > > I understand this discussion can turn into a bikeshed=20 > situation. I hope it > > doesn't end there ;) >=20 > It was a bikeshed starting with the very first email starting this > thread... I'm not sure why this is such a big problem - I have certainly=20 wanted to remove e.g. BIND or sendmail after deciding to use=20 something else. I think it would be most useful in a situation where you have an already installed system that you then define NO_XXX=20 make variables for during a buildworld, and then want to clean out the old/unupdated stuff. On the other hand, I have been using Gentoo linux for awhile on this amd64 workstation and I have to say, what a pain in the ass it was to install! Imagine my surprise when I wanted to use traceroute and found I needed to install it as a package. And vi. And syslog. And cron! It was absurd. -Will
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