From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 20 15: 8:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from enya.clari.net.au (enya.clari.net.au [203.8.14.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD25837BA6D; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:08:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (danny@localhost) by enya.clari.net.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA17544; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:06:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from danny@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: enya.clari.net.au: danny owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:06:46 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" X-Sender: danny@enya.clari.net.au To: spork Cc: Dominik Brettnacher , jabley@patho.gen.nz, dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@freebsd.org, lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, spork wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dominik Brettnacher wrote: > > > Why do you want to use large flat files instead of a file system? The > > Ports Collection also works fine with lots of little files. I think little > > files are easier to maintain. > > Ever unpack ports? It takes forever on the fastest machines. The last > install I did, I think it took longer to install ports than the rest of > the OS... That's my feeling. It's especially sad to twiddle one's thumbs and listen to the disk crunching while it unpacks the korean, japanese, russian, graphics and many other ports sections which I am never going to use. Repeating the exercise for all the ISPs in the world would be suboptimal, to say the least. Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message