From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 13 8:11:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com (modemcable156.106-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.200.106.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C5941514F for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mindstep.com) Received: (qmail 3193 invoked from network); 13 Oct 1999 15:11:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO patrak) (192.168.10.25) by jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com with SMTP; 13 Oct 1999 15:11:43 -0000 Message-ID: <00a801bf158d$421afc20$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: "David G Andersen" Cc: , , References: <199910131428.KAA11701@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199910131436.IAA02185@faith.cs.utah.edu> Subject: Re: FreeSSH Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:11:43 -0400 Organization: MindStep Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, > It strikes me that having the base system be slightly more decomposed > could be advantageous. It would be great to be able to do something like: > > pkg_delete lp > pkg_delete yp > > Has anyone done/tried this in the past, and if so, what was the > reaction? Or what do people think? I realize this sounds a bit like the > "everything is an rpm or dpkg" methodology from Linux, but as long as the > 'base' packages are handled automatically, then it shouldn't impose the > same inconvenience. I think that it would be the next best thing since the package/ports system (as well as a logical step forward). I would love to see most of the things that installed with a "make world" be also registered in the package database. This would make things like upgrading bind, removing sendmail etc a lot easier. However I think that this discussion goes beyond the scope of the "security" mailing list. I copied it to the "current" and "stable" lists as well. I guess the discussion should be held in "current"... Patrick. -- MindStep Corporation www.mindstep.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message