From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 9 18:28:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D70F560 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 18:28:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B4FA2B8A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 18:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128BFE6DC4 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:28:19 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=+8B27GjJhkm2 CmnWIWXoy9+a42Q=; b=tOFGD1WIY7KLLc9TgoYvpX0dqkpquBgf3oUTUwZFLdA/ 4lzrx7UmvJSZ7uMyvb4AUCvq/wZzbyQmUi1eiJO8BF2qhKEdZD+6b0GJOTkSk/1M 0wlHHc4SIO/QjRmEQwKMjIxciUyjwkH1hxMZScwc+q0sFNn4JbMsjuPjGMVAh+E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=PU1loG DAtpb6Mm6r8aalSdJMoHLa7MBiYJH2M0y7KHnvsYJuySc0spALrMmKzrc04pRxGa jzC8mXI5+Vx00OEQBNdyRQIOn0GHIOiIt5JdrQry5ShbQ90AOgEeN2QINjsAa6ao WG76lJ36+bxAktTapSHkyu5X2v3DImUA4qEYc= Received: from [192.168.2.103] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E82EBE6DC3 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:28:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5255A041.2080501@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:28:17 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcs References: <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <20131008031517.GA31864@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <60177810-8DC4-4EA3-8040-A834B79039D2@orthanc.ca> <52538EDC.2080001@freebsd.org> <52541202.3010707@mu.org> <1893399957.20131009013424@serebryakov.spb.ru> <52556567.3090309@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <52556567.3090309@mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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, 09 Oct 2013 18:28:29 -0000 On 10/9/2013 3:17 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > 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? At some point it was decided that the installer should be as simple as possible and package installation was a post-install task, for once the system was up and running. I think that might be changing with bsdinstall getting pkgng support, but it did seem like a fairly major regression at the time. -- Bruce Cran