From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 16:20:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA15661 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 16:20:40 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (root@palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA15654 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 16:20:37 -0700 Received: from localhost (gary@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA03744 ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 00:17:41 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: palmer.demon.co.uk: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Tom Samplonius cc: -Vince- , "Paul F. Werkowski" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 1995 16:18:29 PDT." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3740.796864658.1@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 00:17:39 +0100 Message-ID: <3741.796864659@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message , Tom Sa mplonius writes: > Been nice to have them lumped into an optional distribution, rather >than to have to install each one separately, then cofigure each component >to work with each other. The whole point of apsfilter is that you only have to configure it, all the rest work as shipped (or should do). It's also being looked at if we can provide some nice front ends to the installation of some stuff so that people can get a full system up very quickly and without having to read a single man page, just answer some simple questions. That's why (if you read the commit mail) there is all this work going on in /etc/rc*, so that sysinstall (or son-of-sysinstall) can auto-configure the majority of the system from a couple of menu prompts. And I think (Jordan?) that if you are internet connected or installing off the CDROM, you'll just have to pick them off a menu and they'll be automatically installed (and possibly configured). This entire print configuration system (i.e. /etc/printcap) probably needs re-evaluating, as printcap is based on termcap, and termcap is not exactly the easiest configuration file to use... (and we are looking at setting up something where if you (for example) install tkined, you'll have tcl, tk, tcl-DP, etc installed automatically rather than having to know that you need those installed for it to work) Gary