Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 17:26:17 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> Cc: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950326171500.26503A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503261325.NAA01458@star-gate.com>
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On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Ugh, please don't make emacs part of the standard distribution, let > > alone XEmacs. There are those of us who really don't feel like wasting > > 20 megs of local space (or whatever it takes) for a product that we > > don't use. > > > > Well, by todays prices the cost Xemacs is $9.99 :) Having a surfeit of disk myself, I have a nice, full set of applications, and no one else who is like me will be surprised to hear that I think it's great; but I know several friends who have much more minimal systems, and who want to still participate, but to a more limited extent. I can understand their requests, but I really don't want the technology to be handcuffed by yesterday's needs. I'm watching this discussion, and wondering if a middle ground could possibly be reached by having 2 different distributions? This would completely remove the limitations requested by owners of more modest systems from a more advanced distribution, and free that end of it for more experimentation. On the other hand, the more basic distribution, since it would rely on a more stable set of utilities, would probably have somewhat enhanced reliability, and be better suited for commercial applications. I know that this could be done today, and a lot of it is, by changing targets on makefiles. If two distributions were officially supported, it would ease things, I think. I am making a dutch uncle proposition here, because I spend so much time on homework, I really don't have time to DO any of this... but it seems a reasonable, political solution. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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