Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:43:16 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs Message-ID: <20071115214316.656e279c@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <473CB387.2090100@chuckr.org> References: <2852884D-270A-4879-B960-C10A602E080E@ashleymoran.me.uk> <47387891.2060007@unsane.co.uk> <47387BCA.6080604@foster.cc> <20071112183502.438b44b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738A71A.6060100@chuckr.org> <4738ACDD.50108@u.washington.edu> <4738ADC8.2060005@gmx.de> <4738AEBF.4010109@u.washington.edu> <4738C145.2050601@chuckr.org> <20071112214240.5d3b048a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738CB99.5000807@web.de> <20071112235921.11ae8c0a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738FFC7.7000309@chuckr.org> <47394287.6050303@gmx.de> <473CA416.2040300@chuckr.org> <20071115205131.6f31ba66@gumby.homeunix.com.> <473CB387.2090100@chuckr.org>
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > I've already deleted the message that kicked me off, but it looked to > me that you were talking about the 10,000 ports I was talking about, > and that meant you were referring to new installs, not upgrades. Why would anyone want to configure ports they don't want to install? > BUT if you were talking only about upgrades, then I kinda think, > personally, that you probably should instantiated a new thread, not > used this one. Hmm? Is that supposed to irony, because before you hijacked this thread it was about preventing options screens being brought up at build-time, and pausing the build. Your ideas do absolutely nothing to address this issue because, they would only reduce the number of options, not eliminate them - unless you are intending to radically dumb-down the system. As a case in point take a look at the options for www/squid, I don't believe for a moment that your scheme could handle more than a small fraction of them. If people want an easier desktop system, they already have the pc-bsd and DesktopBSD versions of FreeBSD.
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