From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 11:04:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18746 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18732 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16541; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:04:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd016448; Tue Feb 2 12:04:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07243; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:04:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902021904.MAA07243@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On Desktops and defaults To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:04:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" at Feb 2, 99 07:26:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Just a note before arguments get momentum: > > Offcourse, whenever possible, anyone responsible for such changes into the > BSD system, like those we discussed the last 48 hours about KDE and default > desktops, will make sure that whatever he adds to the install process will > made modular so that no desktop will get major preference above the other. > > Doing otherwise might IMHO violate the principle that is Unix, e.g. > customisable to the max with nothing forced down ones throat. You mean like SMTP is modular? Seriously, the way to get momentum is to pull in the same direction, for better or for worse. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message