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From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:

...

>  [stepping back a bit ]
> 
> 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.?

<Barf><Puke> One of the worst mis-features of Linux in my book.

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