From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 17 20:46:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15492 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:41:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15485 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:41:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA86816; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:41:53 -0800 (PST) To: David Kelly cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:42:39 CST." <199812180142.TAA02468@n4hhe.ampr.org> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:41:53 -0800 Message-ID: <86813.913956113@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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. It's a very good idea, however, it's also hard. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message