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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:06:59 +0100
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The beastie boot menu.
Message-ID:  <1101791219.41abfff31d3a7@imp1-q.free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr> <FA1860B97FADCA625C68119A@[192.168.1.16]> <1101788709.41abf62519b57@imp2-q.free.fr> <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:25:09AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>
> > lying around after an installworld.  People have posted patches
> > on FreeBSD lists to register parts of the world in the pkg database,
> > but there's no chance of it becoming mainstream.
>
> On the contrary, some of us have been asking for this for years, but I
> haven't seen anyone come up with a useful proof of concept.  Where are
> these patches?

Colin Percival's patches:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023804.html

Ruslan Ermilov talks about plans for a "make uninstall target":
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023961.html

Read the whole thread though, and also the "Pkg-based base system" thread
the same month, for a sample of reactions.

Rahul



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