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Date:      Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:56:27 -0500
From:      Eric Schultz <eric@schultznet.ca>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What functionality is provided by minimal install
Message-ID:  <43DFC0EB.8050005@schultznet.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20060130190609.GD96466@flame.pc>
References:  <43DE5E0A.1090806@schultznet.ca> <20060130190609.GD96466@flame.pc>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-01-30 13:42, Eric Schultz <eric@schultznet.ca> wrote:
>> sysintall help that a Minimal install is "just the base system."  But
>> what _functionality_ is provided by a *base system*???
> 
> A short `overview' of a sort can be seen with:
> 
>         # man 5 rc.conf
> 
> For every daemon, service, or option that you see in that manpage, there is
> also a feature of the base system.
> 
Good afternoon...

That's a very interesting idea.  I guess that would cover (excuse my 
un-certainty with the terminology here) the /kernel/ but not the 
/userland/.  For the /userland/ i assume I would still have to man every 
executable - and then some - that I find?

-- 
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   Eric Schultz
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