Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:51:31 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. Message-ID: <p060020a5bc7e3f564a36@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20040317124232.617db171.manlix@demonized.net> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125121.GC91150@abc.123.org> <20040315135725.3cc70f97.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040317124232.617db171.manlix@demonized.net>
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At 12:42 PM +0100 2004/03/17, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> I like FreeBSD, but why
> should I have things that I don't use installed? Yes, you can use
> find(1) as mentioned by someone but it could be simplified.
On virtually every Unix system I've ever administered over the
past fifteen years, there have been parts to the system that I didn't
like. So, I brought in something else, and set that up. You can do
the same here, and the ports system tries to make that as easy as
possible. If you want to build from source, there are a whole bunch
of "NO_" targets that have been defined so that you don't even build
those parts of the system if you don't want them (and don't want to
run the risk that updating them will overwrite your current config).
But I don't see why we have to try to force-fit all OSes in the
world into the Linux package-for-everything model. On any FreeBSD
system I ever touch, I expect certain things to be in there, and I
don't want to see things like vi no being available anywhere on the
system because my insane predecessor was an emacs fanatic.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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