From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 10 09:42:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13845 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13713 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07424; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:41:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:41:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Darren Reed cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? In-Reply-To: <199806101519.IAA22143@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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