From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 10:44:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A157837B577; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA80426; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:43:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:43:59 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues In-Reply-To: <200007111722.KAA11493@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" > writes: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 3) Many folks who need LPRng will have to install it from the ports to > > > get all of its functionality. > > > > Then how about we rip LPR from the base system and let people install the > > printing system they need from ports? > > This would be a huge step in the right direction. We should do the > same with Sendmail, BIND, nvi, and every other component of the O/S. > In short everything should be installed (or for those of us who > installworld, registered) as packages, like Solaris or MVS (IBM > mainframe O/S) do. Let the user decide what to install or not install. > And unless there existed convinient to use collections of those (let's call that bin dist), lot's of people would really hate that. I consider the present system of being able to get a pretty unified standard base system a big plus. That also means being able to depend on the presence of such when writing programs/scripts and not wrorrying too much about that there might be a system on which somebody forgot to install df, dd or something else trivial. > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC > Sander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message