From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 20:11:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA08669 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:11:47 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA08662 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:11:44 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id UAA04477; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:11:30 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504250311.UAA04477@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: [to Install people] Re: comments on an attempted install To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, dgaudet@cs.ubc.ca, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504250314.VAA06914@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 24, 95 09:14:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 915 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 1/ Bindist is FAR too big, and should be broken down to > > > a Base, Net, Devel, and Extended set. > > > I will say however that it's AMAZING how usable the system is > > > after installing just the second floppy.. > > > No plans presently. Easy to do, but consensus on core against at last > > poll. > > Huh? I remember no such poll, and have constantly pushed for breaking > it up. The reason it never happened in the past was for technical > reasons. If those reasons no longer exist, *please* break the release > into chunks. Well, you need to pay more attention then. Suggest you send us lists of filenames you want to more from bindist, with an argument why, and why it will not be a problem for us to do so. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'