From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 18 10:27:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09995 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09986 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:27:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13532; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:27:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd013483; Fri Dec 18 11:27:10 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21088; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:27:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199812181827.LAA21088@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:27:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: crb@ChrisBowman.com, rssh@grad.kiev.ua, dkelly@hiwaay.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <86884.913956693@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 17, 98 08:51:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. > > Folks, can we please stop discussing things that were announced as > "great new ideas" some 3 years ago and have merely languished for lack > of anyone to actually DO THE WORK involved? :-( Are you willing to take a copy of something from Solaris or SCO? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message