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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:10:12 -0500
From:      "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
To:        rssh@grad.kiev.ua
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Back to sysinstall (was  Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall))
Message-ID:  <199812180436.XAA00639@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
In-Reply-To: <3679EB70.6753D0B7@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>
References:  <199812180142.TAA02468@n4hhe.ampr.org>

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At 07:43 AM 12/18/98 +0200, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
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>
>>
>> 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
>
>  great idea !!!.
>
>(at fist this smaller then PicoBSD,  then  .... )
>
>
>>
>> this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar.
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>yes.   And SCO Open Server.  and ....  Linux.

I second this, if the base system was nothing more than a set of packages this
might encourage more people to play with different directions for the
sysinstall mechanism. 
--------
Christopher R. Bowman
crb@ChrisBowman.com
http://www.ChrisBowman.com/

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