From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 08:23:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6316B16A404 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: from smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com (smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com [217.146.188.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC46F13C448 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: (qmail 82769 invoked from network); 14 May 2007 08:23:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btinternet.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Reply-To:From:To:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:Thread-Index:Content-Language; b=CMeqMM8oOsxReHoJcD3Pu2//NwTWP5vLAcIG3D1jY8EUt0gf+OqujIFQEwuV2z5LgTunTXI+nfBFNjpwJ05t5moC4yJO3hWCgsEWWziBKDg+kC37vtFksPwCm6+ktinhuw8R4Kn93aI+d0GGdEcge+xl6h6k6yyYnkINEDLhKek= ; Received: from unknown (HELO w2fzz0vc03) (thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com@86.134.25.217 with login) by smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 May 2007 08:23:38 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: jWVxEt4VM1mjigxqbL_QtMRM.InHAMkAQvXHwdu0YlMYInQJ4hKoO.abbfvOC40PbntNb11KHg-- From: "Thomas Sparrevohn" To: =?UTF-8?Q?'Dag-Erling_=22Sm=C3=B8rgrav=22'?= , "'Tom Judge'" References: <20070512004209.GA12218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <17989.8202.624522.136573@bhuda.mired.org> <20070512090935.GA13929@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <86r6pkzhso.fsf@dwp.des.no> <46479A4A.1070103@tomjudge.com> <86wszbyko7.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86wszbyko7.fsf@dwp.des.no> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:23:37 +0100 Message-ID: <000401c79601$2c4372e0$84ca58a0$@Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AceV8oUKHJT1AKc0SP2FIOFBZxiGWgAC/vQQ Content-Language: en-gb Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 'Mike Meyer' , 'Michel Talon' Subject: RE: DPS Initial Ideas X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:23:40 -0000 > There is a > reason why people have been discussing this for ten years without > getting anywhere. >=20 I suspect that is because that by and large the ports system works ;-) - Ha= ving Played around with a couple of Linux distributions - my impression is that = "ports" offers a much more manageable approach or maybe I am just used to ports ;-)= =20 The discussion about ports is really just a subset of the larger discussion= about how to get a proper configuration management mechanism - and I am st= ill waiting to see a real good generic answer to that debate - FreeBSD ports offers in min mind a very good candidate or starting point = =20 However that being said - there could be benefits to a structured approach = to Configuration Identifiers - whether that would result in speed benefits = overall - remains to be seen =20