From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 10:57:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.0.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30A237B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsi@panix.com) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.0.226]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A145198280; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rsi@localhost) by panix1.panix.com (8.11.0/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id f6AHvj916923; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107101757.f6AHvj916923@panix1.panix.com> X-Authentication-Warning: panix1.panix.com: rsi set sender to rsi@panix.com using -f To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Jordan Hubbard , tlambert@primenet.com, wmoran@iowna.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: From: Rajappa Iyer Date: 10 Jul 2001 13:57:45 -0400 Reply-To: rsi@panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jamie Bowden writes: > On 10 Jul 2001, Rajappa Iyer wrote: > :One of the nice things I like about FreeBSD (and I daresay I'm not > :alone in this) is that when I install it, I know that I'll get a > :kernel with a corresponding full and functional userland. I see the > :packaging of this `base system' as a bunch of (meta)packages as the > :thin edge of the wedge---pretty soon FreeBSD will resemble the > :hodge-podge collection of different (often conflicting) packages that > :Linux is. > > Where as I see the ability to incrementally upgrade only the parts of the > OS that have changed from release to release as I can do right now in > Irix. Yes, I understand the argument, but fear that it's all too easy to get into the kind of package mess that all Linux dists have. It would require considerable amount of release engineering and testing to get everything right. Do you really think it's worth expending that amount of effort for an arguably minor improvement? Regards, Rajappa -- a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. They also surf who stand in the waves. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message