From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 16 7:26:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1651A14A21 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:26:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA25537 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:26:57 -0700 Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda25535; Sat Oct 16 07:26:40 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id HAA46218 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910161426.HAA46218@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdk46215; Sat Oct 16 07:25:09 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Packages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:25:07 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reading all of the comments about SSH, UUCP, and packages, brings to mind what other operating systems do, namely RedHat, Solaris, and MVS, just to name three, which is that everything from the kernel down to the last utility is a package. If, for example, if I would not need games or C or , then I wouldn't install it. We could even have a couple of kernel packages, for example a kernel without BPF and one with it. Of course this could only be used by those who wish to maintain FreeBSD at a binary level, as those of us who use cvsup would have a complicated mess to deal with. However make world could use a selected/installed package directory to only build and install the desired or previously installed packages. Of course this would break any package version dependencies, so this would only work with -RELEASE. Anyhow I'm beginning to ramble. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message