From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 29 15:36:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10C814C4F for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA29976; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:36:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:36:10 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'must have' packages on first CD In-Reply-To: <19990330084028.52258@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Sue Blake wrote: # 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. Just found it and amazingly enough there was only one that wasn't in both lists. :) # # -- # # Regards, # -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message