From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 17:30:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp12.singnet.com.sg (smtp12.singnet.com.sg [165.21.6.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAFA37B403 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 17:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from singapura.singnet.com.sg (singapura.singnet.com.sg [165.21.10.10]) by smtp12.singnet.com.sg (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4R0UJbw012399; Mon, 27 May 2002 08:30:19 +0800 Received: (from shanali@localhost) by singapura.singnet.com.sg (8.8.5/8.7.2) id IAA02114; Mon, 27 May 2002 08:30:19 +0800 (SST) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:30:18 +0800 From: S H A N To: Paul Everlund Cc: simon.windsor@btinternet.com, Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New user - Many questions Message-ID: <20020527083018.A32711@singapura.singnet.com.sg> References: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon> <20020527074200.A46094@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <02052623033601.10268@saxon> <3CF15F51.29A94EA7@cs.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CF15F51.29A94EA7@cs.umu.se>; from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:18:57AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, -- S H A N To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message