From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 15 22:39:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19822 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19800 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA04712; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:38:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:38:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Sue Blake cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ben@rosengart.com, Darren Reed , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? In-Reply-To: <19980616095005.64408@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > I also took objection to the idea that packages should not be available > during installation. That would cut out freebsd's accessibility to a lot > of newbies. My one concern was that it sounded like that didn't matter to > anyone. I don't understand why you think "newbies" can't install packages except in sysinstall. Why not put a pointer to pkg_manage in the default /etc/motd, or something like that? Pkg_manage even *looks* like sysinstall. I still maintain that package installation is orthogonal to installation and belongs elsewhere -- namely, in system *configuration*, which can be done once the OS is safely installed. As evidence, I submit the spate of recent complaints about sysinstall's handling of package installation. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message