Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:02:01 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, pds@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with packages, and general third party software. Message-ID: <199509260102.VAA14193@healer.com>
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From: Peter da Silva <pds@freefall.freebsd.org>
> One problem with installing things from packages is you don't get any
> convenient pointer to how to configure them. For example, if I hadn't
That's a problem with the port not containing documentation on its
own configuration.
> I'm thinking... as well as the /etc/rc* stuff, we need to look at how to
> mechanise standard crontab and inetd.conf and services entries.
It's always possible to auto-edit files. The problems come in when you
have potential conflicts with service numbers, or other such...
For complex sub-systems, there will (if not always, at least for the
next long while) be things that need to be hand-configured.
> And you have to add "operator" to the operator group in /etc/group. I don't
> think we want pkg_add doing this either.
No, but operator should probably be in the "operator" group anyway, ya think?
-coranth
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