Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:40:05 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Sendmail Message-ID: <20030402194005.GL616@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030402142930.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <3E8B093D.4010500@liwing.de> <XFMail.20030402142930.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--umrsQkkrw7viUWFs
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed Apr 02, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>=20
> > I really think splitting the base in some sub-parts would it make much=
=20
> > easier to do NO_SENDMAIL on my own. So I had to remove each not require=
d=20
> > file separately. That's no good solution.
>=20
> [stepping back a bit ]
>=20
> I find an odd situation here whenever this topic comes up. One the
> one hand, people are always wanting to split the entire base system
> up into small packages for each little piece of the base. On the
> other hand, one of FreeBSD's selling points in real-world environments
> is that it doesn't have a bunch of little packages for the base system
> like Linux distros. Do people really prefer something like having
> rpm's for /bin/ps to having one lump base dist for all of /bin, /sbin,
> etc.?
Those two aren't necessarly in contradiction. We could provide a
myriad of small packages and a "wrapper package" containing them all.
Debian has "tasks" to deal with this, it's a meta package that solely
depend on other packages. We could do something similar, or even
better: make a meta package that actually embeds the other package
files.
No I don't have any patches.
A.
--=20
Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content=20
in the United States today.
- C. Edwin Baker
http://www.ad-mad.co.uk/quotes/freespeech.htm
--umrsQkkrw7viUWFs
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD)
iD8DBQE+izyUttcWHAnWiGcRAtDJAJ9IEogA6wCaGdKvXJkjmaEFoBCGdwCfV3Rp
o5EyXXLSNJtamCxzhHb4qCA=
=yb5c
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--umrsQkkrw7viUWFs--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030402194005.GL616>