From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 28 09:00:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18695 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18690 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id IAA22767; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id IAA11478; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:52:03 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id JAA14268; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:52:01 -0700 Message-ID: <36374BB1.5D25725A@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:52:01 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Lea CC: Terry Lambert , Greg Lehey , netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) References: <19981028091347.W20920@freebie.lemis.com> <199810272320.QAA12516@usr04.primenet.com> <19981028092740.A3113@shale.csir.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Lea wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:20:30PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I was thinking in terms of a script (or package) that used the > > output of "pkg_info -a -q" (or set dependencies) such that the > > installation was straight-forward, given the commercial vendor's > > installation media. > > Why not just have a new ports category called "commercial"? That way it is > easy to make sure the software installs on all versions of FreeBSD, etc. and > that the required dependencies are installed. Obviously this would require > that FreeBSD, Inc. be supplied with demo copies of all the software :) Or just a web or ftp download site. Aren't ports cool? Plus, this would save us from going to a 6- or 8-CD distribution, something I'm certain Jordan doesn't want to contemplate. I guess we could make a "FreeBSD Enterprise" distribution, with CD's of all of the different applications we can support, and put it in one of those big CD books Sun uses. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message