From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 20 15:10:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26BD37BB46; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1752 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:07:45 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:07:44 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: spork Cc: Dominik Brettnacher , "danny@FreeBSD.ORG" , 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... Amen! I kinda wish it would install a tarball to the HD and start a background process to unpack it... Maybe make a metaport that has just enough of the ports setup to ask for the rest. There could be a file in the dist directory with the ports tree. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message