Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:41:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980610123932.3675A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <199806101519.IAA22143@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Darren Reed wrote: > Okay...I'm installing 2.2.6 right now and I'm at the "Package Selection" > menu. Strange, I see no way to read the README.TXT file for any of these > packages. No, I haven't yet completed the installation. Yes, I'm > installing packages as part of the base install and there is no README to > RTFR on :) Why is package installation in the install anyway? It's just as easily done when the system is up. Same with a lot of the configuration stuff in the install, don't you think someone setting a system up as a router can do it by hand? It seems to me that the sysinstall mechanism should be for getting a system *installed*, and that configuration, being largely orthogonal, should be left to other mechanisms. "Do one thing and do it well." Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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