From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 9:59:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3330E37BE99 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 3749 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2000 16:59:15 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2000 16:59:15 -0000 Message-ID: <396CA3E3.356F2F2A@integratus.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:59:15 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Knobs for optional software... References: <22147.963379642@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Which is pretty much the design, in a nutshell, of Son of Sysinstall > and has been for over 5 years. It's just a pity we haven't had as > many volunteers as we've needed to actually translate dreams into > reality. :) I have a couple of engineers at Integratus that are looking for a good way to help with the FreeBSD project. One of them was even planning to write an "is this file part of a package" utility to search /var/db/pkg and let you know whether deleting a given file was going to impact any registered application(s). I am sure we could arrange a few (5-10) committed hours a week to help with this sort of thing. You want? Also, I talked to Keith Packard about his microX server (one server for all resolutions, no acceleration, no config files, around 50K total size) at USENIX. Do we want to revisit the idea of an optional X based installer that uses his code as a basis? -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message