Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:43:56 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports Message-ID: <3A8E47DC.FAF7F962@elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102170432471.884-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Mark Murray wrote:
> > I'd really like to see the wall between "base" and "ports" broken down.
>
> base system
> layered software packages
> 3rd party software packages
>
> Humm... I seem to recall another OS that did this sort of thing -20- years
> ago.
I remember how ill I felt the first time I encountered a Unix system with
no C compiler...
>
> I think the real issue is that not everything maintained in the source
> tree should be installed by default. We've already got a fairly coarse
> system that does this via the various Sysinstall packages.
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