Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:30:41 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sgml formatting code Message-ID: <5570.865405841@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:34:09 %2B0930." <199706040504.OAA11867@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> In the current context, pruning the system to the bone would drive > ISVs like ourselves to another platform. Right now, our users are > extremely happy with the "comfort level" that FreeBSD systems provide > them; it's often a significant selling point when talking them into > accepting a unix-centric solution. > > The alternative is not _currently_ palatable; I agree that we need to > help make SoSy part of the solution. Boys, boys, you're BOTH right, OK? :-) FreeBSD as it currently stands is too hard to layer components onto and upgrade - what we have with pkgs/ports is a nice _start_ but it's still insufficient for reasons I could start enumerating now and still not be done by morning, so a little bloat is the price we must currently pay to have a reasonably functional FreeBSD for all. I'm also firmly on the side of making something functional over making it small given that I've suffered with lousy out-of-box Solaris/AIX/HPUX and Digital UNIX installations for more than enough years out of my life, thank you. That said, my ideal is to make the packaging/distribution tools so robust that you can simply select what "kind" of FreeBSD system you want at any time, at initial install or anytime afterwards, and have the system carefully keep track of everything by set. If you want to initially install a bare-bones "embedded system" class FreeBSD, later deciding that you wanted the full doc suite and then even later thinking "naw, I liked it better small", you should be able to do all of that with literally a click of a mousebutton (or a keystroke for you serial console purists :-), all the messy details handled transparently. OK? :-) Jordan
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