From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 15:00:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E86B16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:00:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC70C43D41 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben.kelly@ieee.org) Received: (qmail 5602 invoked by uid 64014); 17 Mar 2004 23:00:40 -0000 Received: from ben.kelly@ieee.org by mail2.speakeasy.net with AmikaGuardian-Server-2.1.2; 17 Mar 2004 23:00:40 -0000 X-AmikaGuardian-Id: mail2.speakeasy.net10795644402615580 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Override Structure : 1.3 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Vectored : 1.3 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Forwarded Mail : 1.3 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Override : 1.3 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Exception : 1.3 X-AmikaGuardian-Action: Do Nothing() Received: from unknown (HELO ieee.org) (desdicardo@[208.247.255.11]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 17 Mar 2004 23:00:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4058D88C.9080201@ieee.org> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:00:28 -0500 From: Ben Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <20040315125121.GC91150@abc.123.org> <20040315135725.3cc70f97.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040317124232.617db171.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317175554.GC94853@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040317194944.53767494.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317211930.GN1206@pun.isi.edu> <20040317224315.68af306b.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317215330.GR1206@pun.isi.edu> <20040317230507.14d883f9.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317222957.GA94022@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20040317222957.GA94022@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: dev-null@NUXI.com cc: Johan Pettersson cc: Ted Faber cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:00:41 -0000 > The particular issue you raised (being able to pick and choose what > parts of the base system should be installed) tends to come up every > few months and has done so for several years now. > People are really, Really, REALLY tired of that discussion by now, and > anybody who tries to start the discussion again without having anything > new to add that hasn't been discussed to death several times over > before, is likely to be flamed for trying to start the discussion > *again*. Would it then be reasonable to add this to an FAQ somewhere? I know I tried to find previous discussions on the mailing list, but found it difficult since the set of keywords to use in this case is not completely obvious. I apologize if this has already been discussed in the past. - Ben