Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:26:50 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040317072052.03b75788@imap.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <4057F887.1010709@freebsd.org> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125710.GK797@camelot.theinternet.com.au> <20040315140153.30348b1e.manlix@demonized.net> <nt1xntb68t.xnt@mail.comcast.net> <4057D767.2090107@freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040317065013.03b765a0@imap.sfu.ca> <4057F887.1010709@freebsd.org>
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At 07:04 17/03/2004, Scott Long wrote: >The trick here is to know when you start sliding too far down the >slope. It's hard to argue about sendmail, named, gcc, etc, but where do >you stop? Before long, you'll be chopping out nvi One of the packages I created was freebsd-base-vi... > for the people who >favor vim, and so on. ... although I was actually thinking of people who use Emacs. :-) > I'm actually more in favor of keeping FreeBSD as >the 'reference implementation', and encouraging others to make >derivatives off if it that satifies these kinds of needs. But we will >see where things head. Above all, I support your work, but just ask you >to be cautious and not this get carried away. I wasn't even considering making any commits here; I just wanted to throw out some code, point out that we really can split the base system into a number of optional pieces, and see where discussion went. This might be useful for a sysinstall replacement, for one thing. Colin Percival
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