Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:47:20 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Three cheers for the status quo, enough now? (was: Re: tmux(1) in base) Message-ID: <20090924074720.B27FE5B13@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:37:25 BST." <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909240020340.95581@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909240020340.95581@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:37:25 BST Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > The current blend of components is largely historical, modeling the mix found > in BSD UNIX, and strikes a hard-to-characterize balance between the logical > extremes "we ship a minimally bootstrapping system" and "we ship every > application under the sun". This means for most parts of the base system > there will be someone who argues it belongs there, and someone who argues that > it doesn't. What would be nice is if the install CDs came with a small number of "profiles" (mini, midi & maxi) and made it easy to pick a profile and install/upgrade to the system described in it. Nicer still would be if there was a way to create custom profiles for specific purposes. Then you have an easy way to clone the same setup to multiple machines. [Not that it would stop such arguments....] I am sure we have been here before!
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