From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 8:49:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFDB237B41B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fAKGofx27713; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:50:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fAKGnUn04186; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:49:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, paulius@kaktusas.org Subject: Re: installing minimal freebsd References: <20011120112209.GA98619@noname> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Nov 2001 11:49:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: paulius@kaktusas.org's message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:22:22 +0000 (UTC)" Message-ID: <44snb9qteu.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 paulius@kaktusas.org (Paulius Bulotas) writes: > I'm quite new to FreeBSD, and want to ask, is there any way to install only components which I really need (for example, no sendmail, no named, no kerberos and so on)? No. If it's in the base system (as the first two of those are), you can't install without it. There is a good argument that those don't really need to be in the base system in the first place, but nobody has done the work to unpeel them from the rest of the base system. > And whats the idea of having openssl port, if there is openssl in main distribution (which is hardly to be left uninstalled, because all ports which depend on openssl, require one from base system, not from ports?) The port is for older FreeBSD systems which either don't have openssl in their base systems, or have an earlier version of it. The port lets such systems get an openssl update without needing to change the rest of the OS itself. And you're wrong about the dependencies; ports which depend on openssl will generally use the version installed by ports in preference to the version in the base system, if both are present. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message