Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:39:15 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <20041130053915.GA67455@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1101791914.41ac02aaeeb1e@imp3-q.free.fr> References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr> <FA1860B97FADCA625C68119A@[192.168.1.16]> <1101788709.41abf62519b57@imp2-q.free.fr> <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org> <1101791219.41abfff31d3a7@imp1-q.free.fr> <20041130051553.GA67210@xor.obsecurity.org> <1101791914.41ac02aaeeb1e@imp3-q.free.fr>
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--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:18:34AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>: > > > Colin Percival's patches: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023804.= html > > > > > > Ruslan Ermilov talks about plans for a "make uninstall target": > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023961.= html > > > > > > Read the whole thread though, and also the "Pkg-based base system" th= read > > > the same month, for a sample of reactions. > > > > Thanks. Both of those people are FreeBSD committers though, so I > > don't know why you think there's "no chance of it becoming > > mainstream". >=20 > Scott Long is a core team member, but nonetheless decided that the boot > menu wasn't worth the fight. I'm not talking about that, though. =20 > Those postings are 8 months old. If there has been further discussion, > obviously you're unaware of them, as I am (but I don't read the lists much > anymore). You're certainly aware that a lot of FreeBSD people will not > countenance the idea. I disagree - there's nothing controversial about allowing users to uninstall parts of the world they installed, as long as the FreeBSD upgrade process doesn't rely on it. Kris --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBrAeCWry0BWjoQKURAlrQAKCmPnPE+4b4av9Tnr3ulfjTZqcKNwCg2NTr gioyUr/6fs/j2EIRoeF1Vrw= =gdCn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--
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