From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 19:13:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4402A37B403 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b003.otenet.gr [195.167.121.131]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6A2DnC27157; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:13:49 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6A2DjM40101; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:13:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 10 Jul 2001 05:13:44 +0300 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:29:23 -0700" Message-ID: <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Lines: 47 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > The base system is not registered into the packages > system, because of sysinstall. It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge freebsd_base-5.0-current-20010624 in the packages list, or a zillion freebsd_base-bin, freebsd_base-etc, etc. installed. > There are a lot of navigational problems with the code; > Eric Melville is addressing some of them. This is true. > The disk partitioning sucks. This has worked for me without any problems, but you must have met some to say that it sucks. Can you elaborate on this, instead of throwing a plain 'sucks' and hoping that we agree with you? > The upgrade process should automatically discover the > FS mount points. Yep. Nice idea. Can we have a patch, please? > It's too "chatty". And this is too terse a complaint to have any meaning whatsoever. > The network setup should attempt to obtain a DHCP lease, > without having to be told to do it, at least for initial > install. No, please don't. I don't want sysinstall trying to play `smart' behind my back. > X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package. But... but... I did install only those parts of X11 that I wanted. I'm not sure I understand this claim. > Etc. (I could go on forever). Thank you for not doing so. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message