Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:23:58 -0800 (PST) From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <1325183038.93200.YahooMailClassic@web113516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4EFC9745.3050901@freebsd.org>
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--- Gio 29/12/11, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> ha scritto: ... > > I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and > especially > specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people > who are old > hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally > positive comments > on the user experience. Patches would be even more > appreciated, since > real life has intervened to steal most of my FreeBSD time. > -Nathan > FWIW; I have practically given up on installing FreeBSD lately and I mostly use PC-BSD. I mainly see two big issues: -X.Org has become very difficult to install. Setting up hald and friends, not to mention that you have to choose carefully your hardware previously. It's a nightmare. - I am OK with sysinstall disappearing: however it was nice to have all the setup tools in one place. How am I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the myriad of dependencies) from now on? Ports are cool but having to wait to rebuild gcc to be able to use scilab is a nonsense. PC-BSD is not without problems though. In my system it wants to use "latam" kbd which doesn't even exist AFAICT. Just my $0.02, I know writing a replacement for the full blown sysinstall is a rather heroic thing to do. Regards, Pedro.
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