From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 15:31:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FE1152C2 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=mistress) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11R16t-00040v-00; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:31:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:31:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Brett Glass Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jonathan Lemon , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990914140446.04b44100@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:35 PM 9/14/99 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >> It is very likely that many things which were done as part of that > > > distribution would be contributed. But this should not be a requirement. > > > >As long as the component itself was not a requirement to installing > >the product, I'd agree. If you make your hypothetical new installer a > >requirement and now all the users of "FreeBSD HyperBrett" are going > >through a substantially different installation experience and posting > >emails to -questions which say things like "I'm at the default smell > >configuration menu and I can't decide between (M)usty library and > >(D)amp basement, has anyone tried these two smells yet?", well, the > >people who staff those lists are going to be exceedingly confused. > > How about if the user is given the option of which installer to use? > Use of the new installer would not be a requirement but rather a third- > party option, and clearly labeled as such. Would this work? > > --Brett > Just curious: Have you got this fancy installer ready? Why not let us test it? Marc Schneiders marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message