Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:11:20 -0400 From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set Message-ID: <87zmeknzg7.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <20060804163116.GB42319@dan.emsphone.com> (Dan Nelson's message of "Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:31:16 -0500") References: <44D36A12.5090000@scottevil.com> <20060804161318.95452.qmail@web35307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060804163116.GB42319@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> writes: > In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: >> --- Scott Oertel <freebsd@scottevil.com> wrote: >> > I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a >> > better, more lightweight tool then mc? >> >> I would also like to hear recommendations for alternatives to mc that >> are light weight, work on the command line **and** are either >> included on the FreeBSD installation CD or would be appropriate >> additions to the installation CD. > > Actually, mc is pretty lightweight if you disable all the options. Note > that the dependency on Perl isn't listed in OPTIONS, so you have to > disable it manually in the port Makefile by setting > WITHOUT_PERL_MODULES=yes > Anyway, for a base system, it's still a bit heavy. In fact, one can always do anything with cp/mv.... I believe the base system should only include the simplest solution, that is, the most fundamental tools one needs, and without redundancy. > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Xiao-Yong
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