From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 26 23:36:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9E3106566B for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:36:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B6614F9ED for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:36:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:36:18 -0000 The story so far ... sysinstall was removed from HEAD in October. I (and others) objected on the basis that at this time there is no replacement for the post-install configuration role that sysinstall played. More sysinstall components were then removed. Then the old version of libdialog (which sysinstall used) was removed. Thus at this point it's not possible to easily restore sysinstall. So my question is, how much do you care? Is lack of that functionality in HEAD something that we care about? Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/