Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:30:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> Cc: "Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group" <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make.conf options (was Re: package-like feature for the base distrib (was Re: FreeSSH)) Message-ID: <199910171630.MAA46571@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <001101bf18b8$049e5e40$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> References: <011801bf159c$f80630e0$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> <199910161454.HAA46310@cwsys.cwsent.com> <001101bf18b8$049e5e40$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>
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<<On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:55:21 -0400, "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> said: > This is going in the right direction, but here is a question (and I don't > have the answer). Is it so much more easier to create new compile time > directive than to go the extra step and use packages where they are > available ? For example "bind8" is available as a package. Why not have the > base install process use that instead of using its own source ? Because one of the fundamental principles is that a default installation, with no third-party packages, should still be a complete system, and -- most importantly -- be able to regenerate itself precisely from source. Hence, the default system needs to contain *an* MTA (not necessarily sendmail, but that's not a question we want to reopen), and *a* name server (not necessarily bind, but there are no other choices). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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