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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 08:30:18 +0800
From:      S H A N <shanali@singnet.com.sg>
To:        Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
Cc:        simon.windsor@btinternet.com, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New user - Many questions
Message-ID:  <20020527083018.A32711@singapura.singnet.com.sg>
In-Reply-To: <3CF15F51.29A94EA7@cs.umu.se>; from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:18:57AM %2B0200
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On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:18:57AM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote:
> Simon Windsor wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Sunday 26 May 2002  8:42 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Simon Windsor wrote:
> > > > - Why is the base system so big ? I here that perl is being
> > > > removed, shouldn't sendmail,bind/named also be removed to
> > > > packages ?
> > >
> > > The base system has everything needed for a full *working*
> > > system, and only weighs in about 200Mb. How big did you expect
> > > it go be?
> > 
> > A basic UNIX install of 200MB is indeed very good. I merely was
> > asking should not many of the basic utilities be installed as
> > packages, like Linux, for example do you want sendmail, exim or
> > no mail server etc.
> > 
> > This could equally apply do other parts of the base system where
> > many people might want a choice of other options.
> > 
> > This might not be the FreeBSD way of doing things, and if so I am
> > sorry for raising the point.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure of this, but... Perl is needed when compililng
> the kernel, therefore it must be in the base system. Sendmail
> might be used when sending mail to localhost with security infor-
> mation and so on (this I'm not even 100% sure of :-). Also other
> stuff might be needed by the system for doing system dependent day
> to day stuff and therefore has to be included.
> 
> > Simon
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
 
hi, sorry to jump in.. but may i suggest if there could be a way
to have only bootstrapped FreeBSD distribution as well ? without
any perl/sendmail/named etc..

rgds,
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S H A N

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