From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 17 19:02:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01312 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:02:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01307 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00859; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812180300.TAA00859@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Kelly cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:42:39 CST." <199812180142.TAA02468@n4hhe.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:00:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It wouldn't be such a bad idea if *everything* was a package (including > the kernel) leaving sysinstall to be a glorified pkg_add. SGI's Irix is > this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar. We're working on this. It presents some unique problems when you attempt to interact with "make world", but there is yet hope. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message