Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:42:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) Message-ID: <199812180142.TAA02468@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:28:28 MST." <199812172228.PAA03922@mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams writes: > The requirement of almost every installation to have a couple of > packages installed implies that the user should know how to install > them. Once they are able to install one package, the addition of a > couple more makes the issue of 'base OS' vs. 'packages' a moot point. > It also means that the 'base OS' is easier to install, build, and debug > since it relies less on features that aren't critical to those tasks, so > the developers can focus their efforts on adding new features and fixing > bugs. It wouldn't be such a bad idea if *everything* was a package (including the kernel) leaving sysinstall to be a glorified pkg_add. SGI's Irix is this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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