From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 02:38:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25848 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 02:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from noether.blah.org (mp-9-13.mp.usyd.edu.au [129.78.57.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25843 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 02:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ada@noether.lab.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from ada@localhost) by noether.blah.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19251 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:37:28 +1000 (EST) From: Ada Message-Id: <199806210937.TAA19251@noether.blah.org> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? In-Reply-To: From Sue Blake at "Jun 17, 98 01:00:14 am" To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:36:10 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: ada@bsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:00:14 +1000 > From: Sue Blake > Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 04:20:51AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Some packages are useful to have right away. I've done nearly a dozen > > reinstalls in the past few days. The first time I installed every > > package which looked remotely interesting, and in hindsight thought > > that was stupid. However, in a later install I installed *none* of > > the packages, and immediately regretted that decision too. I wanted > > to create initial accounts with a bash shell, for instance, but that > > doesn't work great if you didn't install bash. And the first thing > > after rebooting I ftp a tar-file of various scripts I'm used to using, > > but some of them don't work because I don't have perl5 installed yet. Create a port, and in it have dependencies to things like bash and perl5 . then, when you've installed, just do cd /usr/ports/misc rsh remote zcat foo.tar.gz | tar -xf - cd foo make and it should automagically make bash and perl5 and stuff for you, and suchnot. Is there some way to have packages/ports automake upon selection of an option? eg, if during the user creation utility, someone selects /bin/scsh, then the scsh package is autoinstalled. just to give the impression of a full system at start without having to install everything :) > Yes, many of us have tried and regretted those two extremes. I'd like > to see bash pushed hard during installation. It's only small and makes > everything a lot easier for those from a microsoft or Linux background. bash is A) huge B) GPL. I'd like to see zsh pushed for inclusion into the contrib tree; it's small, beautiful, and inclusive (in that it understands a fair amount of csh as well as sh syntax). Ada. -- "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." -- Carl Sagan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message