Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 10:45:15 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: fbsd@clem.systemsix.com (Steve Passe) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Message-ID: <199503300945.KAA23847@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503291820.LAA15489@clem.systemsix.com> from "Steve Passe" at Mar 29, 95 11:20:01 am
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In reply to Steve Passe who said > > Hello, > > > I think I've followed this whole thread correctly, and my > > interpretation is this: we want to have dynamically generated online > > HTML help and search capabilities, but can't afford the extra disk > > space an HTTP server requires. Right? > > Not exactly, it's not an issue of whether we have diskspace for an > httpd (apporx 320k) it's that we don't have diskspace for everything > in the world. The discussion is whether an httpd deserves a piece > of this limited resource (ie the user's disk). We are away's from > running out of cdrom space (i think) so i suggest that we quit > worrying about what deserves to be in the releases and concentrate > on building decent groupings of optional packages from which a user > can easily choose to install the items he/she wants. IMHO that's > as close as we can come to pleasing everybody. Actually, that's not this issue. There will certainly be a hhtpd on the cdrom and in the ports tree, maybe even a selection. The issue is whether our documentation should require a httpd to be running in order to read them properly. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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