From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 06:48:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0AC16A417 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:48:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37E413C47E for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:48:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so65488wxd for ; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:48:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=980BRwdq7CgarSXGX5uOyr0BhMbpmFs9yHO+QxfsY5M=; b=AmA332MX0cMMFBvZe3/PNf6Snxhk9PSKHMry+vA4jlOqAunwH9RMVIJevHoZvTI6OfommpZUGlNR1mfmPXQy13avz/Gzs4OScAfNjEvH1xt6vvW+QUaUgHRNSCYebGTlRg67clMtyLWPX2yRbI76uSUvOERacGYSzGpZgU3kC+4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EeBCX7q0ydn6Dn0BynfL/HdC6fZ0qYuRNugN/1KrfoaNjH3VHxmBvH3IcGp2rLzHPblRwhXhdpxPJtWo7oBWKYQtyLlA/7V+cfnjN0L7PNxHtyuN6v5BMR3W17YtiJx3lwo1sMDEUBHJHH05fP674YfkTMp2ejLhk8NwUjFEDM0= Received: by 10.143.1.2 with SMTP id d2mr2150139wfi.1191480522056; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.74.5 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2fd864e0710032348q24755caekda97781484005f64@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:48:42 -0500 From: Astrodog To: "Aryeh Friedman" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2fd864e0710030030h1bbacc5enc6e1502cb2929dbf@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Backhaus Subject: Re: small purposal for change in installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:48:44 -0000 On 10/3/07, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > Given the inherent dangers of using cvsup, and updating from source, I > > do not believe this... minor barrier to entry really deserves > > consideration, and I'm sure we can all agree that it really would be > > best to paint it blue. > > Even though your quiet right from a techinical stand point I think > this is one of the attitudes that has kept FreeBSD from being > considered by linux people... namely your right on this specific point > but the attitude behind is likelly to be a turn off > I don't see the FreeBSD project as directly targeting Windows, or Linux desktop users. The PC-BSD and DesktopBSD projects cover this nicely. I'm not entirely certain I'd want someone who was turned off by this behavior using vanilla FreeBSD in the first place. --- Harrison