From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 17 20:13:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11084 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crbowman.erols.com [209.122.47.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11074 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from fermion (fermion [10.0.1.2]) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA00639; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:36:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Message-Id: <199812180436.XAA00639@quark.ChrisBowman.com> X-Sender: crb@quark X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:10:12 -0500 To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua From: "Christopher R. Bowman" Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) Cc: David Kelly , FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3679EB70.6753D0B7@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <199812180142.TAA02468@n4hhe.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:43 AM 12/18/98 +0200, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > > >> >> 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 > > great idea !!!. > >(at fist this smaller then PicoBSD, then .... ) > > >> >> this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar. > >yes. And SCO Open Server. and .... Linux. I second this, if the base system was nothing more than a set of packages this might encourage more people to play with different directions for the sysinstall mechanism. -------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com http://www.ChrisBowman.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message