From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 18:11:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5336416A4DD for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:11:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu (jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.29.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1908943D73 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:11:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from photon.homelinux.org (dyn-carl-201-40.dyn.columbia.edu [160.39.201.40]) (user=xj2106 mech=PLAIN bits=0) by jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k74IBKm6000540 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:11:25 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44D36A12.5090000@scottevil.com> <20060804161318.95452.qmail@web35307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060804163116.GB42319@dan.emsphone.com> From: Xiao-Yong Jin Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:11:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060804163116.GB42319@dan.emsphone.com> (Dan Nelson's message of "Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:31:16 -0500") Message-ID: <87zmeknzg7.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-No-Spam-Score: Local X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 128.59.29.5 Subject: Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:11:30 -0000 Dan Nelson writes: > In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: >> --- Scott Oertel wrote: >> > I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a >> > better, more lightweight tool then mc? >> >> I would also like to hear recommendations for alternatives to mc that >> are light weight, work on the command line **and** are either >> included on the FreeBSD installation CD or would be appropriate >> additions to the installation CD. > > Actually, mc is pretty lightweight if you disable all the options. Note > that the dependency on Perl isn't listed in OPTIONS, so you have to > disable it manually in the port Makefile by setting > WITHOUT_PERL_MODULES=yes > Anyway, for a base system, it's still a bit heavy. In fact, one can always do anything with cp/mv.... I believe the base system should only include the simplest solution, that is, the most fundamental tools one needs, and without redundancy. > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Xiao-Yong