From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 13:15:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from euphoria.confusion.net (dementia.confusion.net [205.166.119.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3032D37B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@euphoria.confusion.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by euphoria.confusion.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f6AKFCZ28858; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland To: Wes Peters Cc: Rasputin , Jamie Bowden , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral In-Reply-To: <3B4B1BB2.57ED1B00@softweyr.com> Message-ID: 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 On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rasputin wrote: > > > > > I may be low on caffeine, but I don't see how breaking up the base system > > > into packages makes it any easier to upgrade than using cvsup? > > > > I think the discussion is Re: binary upgrades, like putting in the CD and > > hitting that upgrade option, which right now doesn't quite get you there > > afaik. > > I don't think the goal was to make the system easier to upgrade, but rather > easier to subset. Do we really NEED to have sendmail on every DNS server > we put together? Also very true. But in the context of upgrades, which is what Rasputin was coming from, it's a binary upgrade issue, not a source one, which is why cvsup isn't a fair comparison. I definitely think it'd be nice to have things like sendmail somewhat more separate. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message