Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:01:01 -0600 From: "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making suggestions Message-ID: <20020228215739.18A7037B417@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net> References: <33993602@toto.iv> <f51yf5s407.yf5@localhost.localdomain> <20020228214933.GA484@raggedclown.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I'm willing to be the sacrificial lab, what list should I ask if this is the right list to be used for making suggestions or not? On Thursday 28 February 2002 03:49 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:14:32PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > If PR's are OK for suggestions, I'd have to guess that freebsd-bugs > > would be too, since that's that place of last resort for those not > > willing to write PRs. But I wouldn't try discussing the suggestion > > on freebsd-bugs; I'd take that to a subject-appropriate site, though > > that's not always clearly obvious, and I'm still not sure what would > > be appropriate for non-technical-list-covered enhancements; the charters > > of -chat, -hackers, -current, -questions all seem to exclude it. > > That is the problem. > If you find a bug, or have an enhancement, have ported something etc... > then it is all fairly obvious what to do. > > However, consider the following (and this is not meant to start a debate > about this on this list, I use this for illustrative purposes). > > There have been recent rumblings about missing KDE components on the > ISO's. It't been discussed, and said a few times that there is only so > much room on a CD. > So I get to think, what is on the CD, looking at /usr/bin I see several > things that by no stretch of the imagination could be described as > essential. The example I gave is F77. Now if I want to suggest that a > re-examination be made of what constitutes the base distribution, and to > turf off out fripperies like F77 to whom do I suggest it ? In fact if I > suggest that the time has come for a lot of things that are in /usr/bin > to start justifying their existance who is going to listen to me ? > > As Gary points out above there seems to be no forum for this. > > To *repeat* this is not meant to start a discussion on F77... :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020228215739.18A7037B417>