From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 8:46:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C2C37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:46:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A2643F9B for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:46:36 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18g6DM-0005xt-00; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 16:46:28 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:46:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Daniel Goepp Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BIND 8/9 In-Reply-To: <003d01c2cc66$6618b160$6432a8c0@dpg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Daniel Goepp wrote: > So in a more general sense, does anyone know what the planned future is for > better control of what is and isn't installed? Yes. The plan/aspiration is to eventually have a system that's completely managed as fine-grained packages. At least, that's the aspiration that _some_ people have expressed in places like -arch. There's no deadline/timeframe for the work that I'm aware of. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Strive to live every day as though it was last Wednesday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message