Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:49:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making suggestions Message-ID: <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <f51yf5s407.yf5@localhost.localdomain> References: <33993602@toto.iv> <15485.38830.961741.750404@guru.mired.org> <20020228055910.GC3311@raggedclown.net> <1014918027.1412142.0@smtp012.mail.yahoo.com> <20020228183526.GA3921@raggedclown.net> <f51yf5s407.yf5@localhost.localdomain>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:14:32PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > If PR's are OK for suggestions, I'd have to guess that freebsd-bugs > would be too, since that's that place of last resort for those not > willing to write PRs. But I wouldn't try discussing the suggestion > on freebsd-bugs; I'd take that to a subject-appropriate site, though > that's not always clearly obvious, and I'm still not sure what would > be appropriate for non-technical-list-covered enhancements; the charters > of -chat, -hackers, -current, -questions all seem to exclude it. > That is the problem. If you find a bug, or have an enhancement, have ported something etc... then it is all fairly obvious what to do. However, consider the following (and this is not meant to start a debate about this on this list, I use this for illustrative purposes). There have been recent rumblings about missing KDE components on the ISO's. It't been discussed, and said a few times that there is only so much room on a CD. So I get to think, what is on the CD, looking at /usr/bin I see several things that by no stretch of the imagination could be described as essential. The example I gave is F77. Now if I want to suggest that a re-examination be made of what constitutes the base distribution, and to turf off out fripperies like F77 to whom do I suggest it ? In fact if I suggest that the time has come for a lot of things that are in /usr/bin to start justifying their existance who is going to listen to me ? As Gary points out above there seems to be no forum for this. To *repeat* this is not meant to start a discussion on F77... :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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