From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 29 14:38:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from vedanix.welearn.com.au (vedanix.welearn.com.au [203.35.200.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BDB14BF9 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@vedanix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by vedanix.welearn.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24820; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:40:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Message-ID: <19990330084028.52258@welearn.com.au> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:40:28 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Steve Price , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'must have' packages on first CD Mail-Followup-To: Steve Price , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Price on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 04:19:21PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 04:19:21PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > I know I'm probably going to regret asking this and I can't > guarantee I'll get everyone's favorites in, but... here's > little exercise in achieving some semblance of customer > satisfaction. > > I'd like to know the top five ports that are a 'must have' > on the first CD of each FreeBSD release. I mean which ports > do people have to have for the first reboot after settting > up a box and absolutely cannot tolerate sticking in the 2nd > CD to grab any remaining ports of interest. I was thinking > along the lines of a shell (bash/tcsh), an editor (emacs/vim), > etc. For another purpose, I asked for the top ten packages on the -newbies list last year. If you can be bothered checking for it in the archives, you'll get a pretty good idea of what ports the super-green people will drive us silly over if they can't find and install them easily. IIRC it boiled down to about 15 that most new people expected to have available right from the start, or soon thereafter. From these 15 it would be sensible to discard the nice toys if necessary and ensure that the rest are all present on the first CD. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message