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Date:      10 Jul 2001 05:13:44 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral
Message-ID:  <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:29:23 -0700"
References:  <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:

> The base system is not registered into the packages
> system, because of sysinstall.

It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src.
I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge
freebsd_base-5.0-current-20010624 in the packages list, or a zillion
freebsd_base-bin, freebsd_base-etc, etc. installed.

> There are a lot of navigational problems with the code;
> Eric Melville is addressing some of them.

This is true.

> The disk partitioning sucks.

This has worked for me without any problems, but you must have met some to say
that it sucks.  Can you elaborate on this, instead of throwing a plain 'sucks'
and hoping that we agree with you?

> The upgrade process should automatically discover the
> FS mount points.

Yep.  Nice idea.  Can we have a patch, please?

> It's too "chatty".

And this is too terse a complaint to have any meaning whatsoever.

> The network setup should attempt to obtain a DHCP lease,
> without having to be told to do it, at least for initial
> install.

No, please don't.
I don't want sysinstall trying to play `smart' behind my back.

> X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package.

But... but... I did install only those parts of X11 that I wanted.
I'm not sure I understand this claim.

> Etc. (I could go on forever).

Thank you for not doing so.

-giorgos

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