From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 05:07:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1340C16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:07:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B8943D2D for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:07:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsidd@online.fr) Received: from imp1-q.free.fr (imp1-q.free.fr [212.27.42.1]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6901D1695EC; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:06:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by imp1-q.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id 308907113; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:06:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from proxy.imsc.res.in (proxy.imsc.res.in [203.199.209.81]) by imp1-q.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:06:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1101791219.41abfff31d3a7@imp1-q.free.fr> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:06:59 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Kris Kennaway References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr> <1101788709.41abf62519b57@imp2-q.free.fr> <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 203.199.209.81 cc: "Jason C. Wells" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:07:04 -0000 Quoting Kris Kennaway : > 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