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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2003.08.31 00:09:47 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > packaging system. Ideally, things like sendmail and bind would be taken > out of the base system, and sysinstall would offer people the option of 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; for 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 > 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 :-). -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UdJzh9pcDSc1mlERAlkoAJ0Y5cS9WLl/Bu0cPGcXHiuinPg6BgCgprW8 8lFXNuMLYWjLB3q1tz2R6Qk= =ZIrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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