Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010710131349.26245F-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> In-Reply-To: <3B4B1BB2.57ED1B00@softweyr.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rasputin wrote: > > > > > I may be low on caffeine, but I don't see how breaking up the base system > > > into packages makes it any easier to upgrade than using cvsup? > > > > I think the discussion is Re: binary upgrades, like putting in the CD and > > hitting that upgrade option, which right now doesn't quite get you there > > afaik. > > I don't think the goal was to make the system easier to upgrade, but rather > easier to subset. Do we really NEED to have sendmail on every DNS server > we put together? Also very true. But in the context of upgrades, which is what Rasputin was coming from, it's a binary upgrade issue, not a source one, which is why cvsup isn't a fair comparison. I definitely think it'd be nice to have things like sendmail somewhat more separate. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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