From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 20 6:15:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0062A37B400; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p59-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.124]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id XAA17924; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:15:29 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A699CEE.5B04769@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:13:02 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: Maxim Sobolev , John Baldwin , Chris Knight , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall move and make release on FreeBSD-stable References: <3A68004F.D490D0D2@FreeBSD.org> <4.3.2.7.0.20010120150126.00c5b220@mail.drwilco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote: > > >3) Most of what FreeBSD installs is not required for day-to-day for most > >users. Since many users use sysinstall to some extent as a system > >managing tool, sysinstall is actually quite more oftenly used than many. > > It's currently the best way to install packages IMHO. With the automatic > dependancy resolving and downloading from FTP. The latter pkg_add offers, > but it's a bother having to find the URLs. What are you talking about? pkg_add -r pkgname, that's all it takes. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message