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On 10/9/13 1:59 AM, Daniel Nebdal wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hello, Daniel.
>> You wrote 8 октября 2013 г., 19:40:23:
>>
>> DN> If they get the package repositories back up - which I assume will
>> DN> happen before any official releases from 10 - it should just be "pkg
>> DN> install rcs". As challenges go, that doesn't seem too bad?
>>    Topic starter mentioned, that assumption that everybody has online
>>   connection is completely wrong! As far as I understand, it was his main
>>   objection -- they have a lot of offline computers at work (something
>>   related to Security Theatre by DHS, but who am I to judge them?).
>>
>>    And you again says about "pkg install rcs" which needs internet
>>   connection!
>>
>> --
>> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
>>
>
> I was answering Alfred Perlsteins claim that FreeBSD is "a chore to
> install packages into". I agree that it won't work without an internet
> connection (or a local package repository), but that's hardly a
> problem limited to FreeBSD.
>
> Anyway, it seems likely that we'll get OpenRCS in base, hopefully
> making everyone happy.
>

Only a few years ago you could take a dvd or memstick of FreeBSD and 
have 1000s of packages to choose from during your install.  That is 
broken now?

Bummer.

-- 
Alfred Perlstein