Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:48:20 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strip FreeBSD a bit Message-ID: <20030831104819.GA395@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030830235954.02dd9620@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <3F5193E2.8060805@carebears.mine.nu> <3F50C956.70603@carebears.mine.nu> <20030830151544.G21642@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <3F5193E2.8060805@carebears.mine.nu> <5.0.2.1.1.20030830235954.02dd9620@popserver.sfu.ca>
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--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.08.31 00:09:47 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > packaging system. Ideally, things like sendmail and bind would be taken= =20 > out of the base system, and sysinstall would offer people the option of= =20 As stated in the archives, bind can't just be removed due to the resolver code being used in libc. > installing sendmail/qmail/exim/portfix/nothing and bind/djbdns/nothing; f= or=20 Bernsteins programs can't be distributed, since we are not allowed to distribute modified binary versions. Besides, sysinstall in 5.x actually allows to install exim/postfix to use instead of sendmail. Sysinstall doesn't remove sendmail, but it's just not used. > that matter, most things under contrib/ are probably good candidates for= =20 > removing from base. > The problem, of course, is actually getting it done. A lot of the things in contrib/ are important to normal operation of a FreeBSD system, e.g. compilers, groff (for manual pages) and many more. Well, I guess that was enough repeating of what's in the archives multiple times already :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UdJzh9pcDSc1mlERAlkoAJ0Y5cS9WLl/Bu0cPGcXHiuinPg6BgCgprW8 8lFXNuMLYWjLB3q1tz2R6Qk= =ZIrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--
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