From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 12:44:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CEA37B403 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 12:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4RJi9Ng050227; Tue, 28 May 2002 07:44:09 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4RJi8FW050226; Tue, 28 May 2002 07:44:08 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 07:44:08 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Simon Windsor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New user - Many questions Message-ID: <20020528074408.A50180@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon> <20020527074200.A46094@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <02052621092800.10268@saxon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <02052621092800.10268@saxon>; from simon.windsor@btinternet.com on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:09:28PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:09:28PM +0100, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > On Sunday 26 May 2002 8:42 pm, you wrote: > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Simon Windsor wrote: > > > - Why is the base system so big ? I here that perl is being removed, > > > shouldn't sendmail,bind/named also be removed to packages ? > > > > The base system has everything needed for a full *working* system, and > > only weighs in about 200Mb. How big did you expect it go be? > > A basic UNIX install of 200MB is indeed very good. I merely was asking should > not many of the basic utilities be installed as packages, like Linux, for > example do you want sendmail, exim or no mail server etc. Everything in the base system is required for a working system. Replacements can be added via the ports, similarly for other 3rd party applications. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message