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Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install
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On 28/12/2011 06:30, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 12/27/2011 22:08, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Why not just list the things that sysinstall did that people like, and
>> extract out / reimplement those bits?
> That's sounds great. As soon as that's done, we can remove sysinstall
> from the base. Until those things exist, removing it is premature.
>
In that case can I suggest a wiki page or other viewable/editable list
of desirable features from sysinstall?
I only used it for the basic disklayout and component install so I'm not
in a position to start it off or I would.

Vince