Date: 10 Jul 2001 13:57:45 -0400 From: Rajappa Iyer <rsi@panix.com> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, tlambert@primenet.com, wmoran@iowna.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <200107101757.f6AHvj916923@panix1.panix.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107100439380.67797-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> writes: > On 10 Jul 2001, Rajappa Iyer wrote: > :One of the nice things I like about FreeBSD (and I daresay I'm not > :alone in this) is that when I install it, I know that I'll get a > :kernel with a corresponding full and functional userland. I see the > :packaging of this `base system' as a bunch of (meta)packages as the > :thin edge of the wedge---pretty soon FreeBSD will resemble the > :hodge-podge collection of different (often conflicting) packages that > :Linux is. > > Where as I see the ability to incrementally upgrade only the parts of the > OS that have changed from release to release as I can do right now in > Irix. Yes, I understand the argument, but fear that it's all too easy to get into the kind of package mess that all Linux dists have. It would require considerable amount of release engineering and testing to get everything right. Do you really think it's worth expending that amount of effort for an arguably minor improvement? Regards, Rajappa -- <rsi@panix.com> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. They also surf who stand in the waves. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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