Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:15:53 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. Message-ID: <4055F2D9.6060101@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net>
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Johan Pettersson wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice to have ha pkg-based base system? So you
> easily can remove parts from the base system, like openssh,
> ipfw, ipf, bind, sendmail and so on. This couldn't be too
> hard to implement. :)
a) You are not the first person to suggest this.
b) It is, in fact, very hard to do.
c) Part of the point of BSD is having a single, well-integrated
system. Breaking it up as you suggest would lose this.
Tim Kientzle
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