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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2007 09:23:37 +0100
From:      "Thomas Sparrevohn" <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?'Dag-Erling_=22Sm=C3=B8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no>, "'Tom Judge'" <tom@tomjudge.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 'Mike Meyer' <mwm@mired.org>, 'Michel Talon' <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Subject:   RE: DPS Initial Ideas
Message-ID:  <000401c79601$2c4372e0$84ca58a0$@Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
In-Reply-To: <86wszbyko7.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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>

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> 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



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