Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:21:11 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: pfg@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <CADLo838QmnSz_oNis5zZiwqO7YLBAkYcEGQFsXN4J33jcdWv9Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1325183038.93200.YahooMailClassic@web113516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <4EFC9745.3050901@freebsd.org> <1325183038.93200.YahooMailClassic@web113516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 29 December 2011 18:23, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > --- Gio 29/12/11, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> ha scritto: >> I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and >> especially >> specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people >> who are old >> hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally >> positive comments >> on the user experience. Patches would be even more >> appreciated, since >> real life has intervened to steal most of my FreeBSD time. >> -Nathan >> > > FWIW; > > I have practically given up on installing FreeBSD lately > and I mostly use PC-BSD. I mainly see two big issues: > > -X.Org has become very difficult to install. Setting up > hald and friends, not to mention that you have to choose > carefully your hardware previously. It's a nightmare. I've not found that... installing xorg-drivers with the correct options is hassle-free... have you posted these problems to -x11@? > - I am OK with sysinstall disappearing: however it was > nice to have all the setup tools in one place. How am > I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the myriad > of dependencies) from now on? Ports are cool but having > to wait to rebuild gcc to be able to use scilab is a > nonsense. Use packages, we do do them! Chris > PC-BSD is not without problems though. In my system > it wants to use "latam" kbd which doesn't even > exist AFAICT. > > Just my $0.02, I know writing a replacement for the > full blown sysinstall is a rather heroic thing to do. > > Regards, > > Pedro.
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