Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:11:05 +0100 From: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. Message-ID: <20040317221105.70f233be.manlix@demonized.net> In-Reply-To: <p060020a5bc7e3f564a36@[10.0.1.4]> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125121.GC91150@abc.123.org> <20040315135725.3cc70f97.manlix@demonized.net> <20040317110938.GA86023@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040317124232.617db171.manlix@demonized.net> <p060020a5bc7e3f564a36@[10.0.1.4]>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:51:31 +0100 Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote: > On virtually every Unix system I've ever administered over the > past fifteen years, there have been parts to the system that I didn't > like. So, I brought in something else, and set that up. You can do > the same here, and the ports system tries to make that as easy as > possible. If you want to build from source, there are a whole bunch > of "NO_" targets that have been defined so that you don't even build > those parts of the system if you don't want them (and don't want to > run the risk that updating them will overwrite your current config). > > But I don't see why we have to try to force-fit all OSes in the > world into the Linux package-for-everything model. On any FreeBSD > system I ever touch, I expect certain things to be in there, and I > don't want to see things like vi no being available anywhere on the > system because my insane predecessor was an emacs fanatic. > Basic unix-tools for administration should be there. And package based base-system maybe isnt so good at all. But something that removes sendmail when running make installworld if NO_SENDMAIL is set in make.conf
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