From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 14:22:52 2003 Return-Path: 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 4FD1D37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472F543FB1 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030613212250.LKEG4805.out003.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:22:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3EEA4096.50809@mac.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:22:30 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Coile References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:22:50 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to tailor installation set? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:22:52 -0000 Steve Coile wrote: [ ... ] > I guess that's my point. FreeBSD is pretty big, even without the ports. > My administration philosophy is "minimal function set": only install what > will be used. I'd like a clean way to remove a component--for instance > development tools, or X, or printing support--from the system without > breaking any dependencies. See the NO_FOO flags in /etc/defaults/make.conf; you can configure a minimal version of FreeBSD without breaking dependencies.... -Chuck