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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:20:04 -0400
From:      Zak Johnson <zakj-freebsd-arch@nox.cx>
To:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd
Message-ID:  <20020801212004.GC6856@opiate.nox.cx>
In-Reply-To: <3D49A37B.BA3C2982@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:09:15PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > If I had the time, I would be so sorely tempted to roll my own *BSD
> > distribution based on that idea.... FreeBSD without the fluff.
> > 
> > I'd have to roll some kind of binary distribution channel as there is no
> > system compiler ;)
> 
> There have been a lot of us who have felt this way.

I'm inclined to say that an entirely new distribution is a bad idea,
because it will involve a great deal of duplicated effort.

What was done recently with Perl was a tremendous step in the right
direction, and a good compromise for those of us who want a smaller base
system.  I would like to see this sort of packaging extended to other
unnecessary packages in the base system.  The largest barrier seems to
be differing definitions of "unnecessary" in this context.

-Zak

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