From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 12:52: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F3E37BD9C for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA44532; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Jack Rusher Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Knobs for optional software... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:59:15 PDT." <396CA3E3.356F2F2A@integratus.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:52:19 -0700 Message-ID: <44529.963431539@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? I'd be quite interested in pursuing both of these ideas! Do you want to have a phone conversation about this? We could probably cover a lot more ground more quickly. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message