Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:22:58 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: 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: <200102171522.f1HFML953484@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102170432471.884-100000@sasami.jurai.net> ; from "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:35:39 EST." References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102170432471.884-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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> 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 Yeah! Sorta! > Humm... I seem to recall another OS that did this sort of thing -20- years > ago. > > 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. The "base" should be pretty compulsory, the "layered" stuff is "maintained but optional", and '3rd party' is like what we have in ports now, but mostly only the smaller stuff. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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