Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:39:56 -0500 From: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade: integration with the main FreeBSD tree? Message-ID: <20011221003956.A29173@anduril.org> In-Reply-To: <20011220023727.GB54567@voi.aagh.net>; from tom.hurst@clara.net on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:37:27AM %2B0000 References: <20011220000802.GB99222@gw.tex.bogus> <20011220023727.GB54567@voi.aagh.net>
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On Thu Dec 20, 2001; 02:37AM +0000 Thomas Hurst propagated the following: [snip] > > It's not functionality added to FreeBSD though, it's added to ports, and > hence if you don't have any ports installed it's just unwanted cruft. > > I'd be very happy if sysinstall were to recommend it, however. > How about, if you want to install the ports system, you install the ports utilities, and if you don't, you won't get any of them (such as the pkg_* collection). That way, we can have a really nice package system, and folks who don't want it don't have to have it. All that might need to remain in the base are the standard pkg_add/pkg_info commands for those who don't want the ports system and all that it entails. > I'd be even happier if all the perl in the base system was replaced > with Ruby, especially since Ruby is smaller, but I guess we can't have > everything :) > Or just remove any kind of GPL scripting language? ;) > -- > Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -wd -- chip norkus; c programmer of the apocalypse wd@arpa.com "question = (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare http://telekinesis.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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