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: > > >> >> 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. > >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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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