Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:36:10 +1000 (EST) From: Ada <ada@noether.lab.usyd.edu.au> To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? Message-ID: <199806210937.TAA19251@noether.blah.org> In-Reply-To: From Sue Blake at "Jun 17, 98 01:00:14 am"
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> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:00:14 +1000 > From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> > Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 04:20:51AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Some packages are useful to have right away. I've done nearly a dozen > > reinstalls in the past few days. The first time I installed every > > package which looked remotely interesting, and in hindsight thought > > that was stupid. However, in a later install I installed *none* of > > the packages, and immediately regretted that decision too. I wanted > > to create initial accounts with a bash shell, for instance, but that > > doesn't work great if you didn't install bash. And the first thing > > after rebooting I ftp a tar-file of various scripts I'm used to using, > > but some of them don't work because I don't have perl5 installed yet. Create a port, and in it have dependencies to things like bash and perl5 . then, when you've installed, just do cd /usr/ports/misc rsh remote zcat foo.tar.gz | tar -xf - cd foo make and it should automagically make bash and perl5 and stuff for you, and suchnot. Is there some way to have packages/ports automake upon selection of an option? eg, if during the user creation utility, someone selects /bin/scsh, then the scsh package is autoinstalled. just to give the impression of a full system at start without having to install everything :) > Yes, many of us have tried and regretted those two extremes. I'd like > to see bash pushed hard during installation. It's only small and makes > everything a lot easier for those from a microsoft or Linux background. bash is A) huge B) GPL. I'd like to see zsh pushed for inclusion into the contrib tree; it's small, beautiful, and inclusive (in that it understands a fair amount of csh as well as sh syntax). Ada. -- "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." -- Carl Sagan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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