From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 22:36:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA28179 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 22:36:50 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA28171 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 22:36:43 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA03093; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:37:07 GMT Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:37:06 +0000 () From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. In-Reply-To: <9503261848.AA06816@cs.weber.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > And yes, it should be a requirement. Even the best Linux install > has you babysitting he machine for quite some time. I specifically recall that the Slackware distribution I used on my machine (before I switched to FreeBSD) had an "express" install feature where you pick all the packages at the beginning and let it chug away. You could tell it to either install the default set of binaries or everything it could find, even if it meant having three mail readers, five editors, foreign language fonts, etc. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org