Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:56:40 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Sendmail Message-ID: <20030402195640.GA318@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030402142930.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <3E8B093D.4010500@liwing.de> <XFMail.20030402142930.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: ... > [stepping back a bit ] > > I find an odd situation here whenever this topic comes up. One the > one hand, people are always wanting to split the entire base system > up into small packages for each little piece of the base. On the > other hand, one of FreeBSD's selling points in real-world environments > is that it doesn't have a bunch of little packages for the base system > like Linux distros. Do people really prefer something like having > rpm's for /bin/ps to having one lump base dist for all of /bin, /sbin, > etc.? <Barf><Puke> One of the worst mis-features of Linux in my book. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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