From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 25 18:06:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA02755 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:06:09 -0700 Received: from healer.com (healer-gw.Empire.Net [205.164.80.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02749 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:05:56 -0700 Received: (from gryphon@localhost) by healer.com (8.6.11/8.6.9.1) id VAA14193; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:02:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:02:01 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon Message-Id: <199509260102.VAA14193@healer.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, pds@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with packages, and general third party software. Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk From: Peter da Silva > 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 ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 3 Hansom Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...