Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:43:59 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000711193915.70622A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200007111722.KAA11493@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" > writes: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 3) Many folks who need LPRng will have to install it from the ports to > > > get all of its functionality. > > > > Then how about we rip LPR from the base system and let people install the > > printing system they need from ports? > > This would be a huge step in the right direction. We should do the > same with Sendmail, BIND, nvi, and every other component of the O/S. > In short everything should be installed (or for those of us who > installworld, registered) as packages, like Solaris or MVS (IBM > mainframe O/S) do. Let the user decide what to install or not install. > And unless there existed convinient to use collections of those (let's call that bin dist), lot's of people would really hate that. I consider the present system of being able to get a pretty unified standard base system a big plus. That also means being able to depend on the presence of such when writing programs/scripts and not wrorrying too much about that there might be a system on which somebody forgot to install df, dd or something else trivial. > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC > Sander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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