From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 14:10:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB8B37B406 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a081.otenet.gr [212.205.215.81]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6CLAXe28096; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:10:33 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6CL4D602561; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:04:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Bill Moran , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <20010711191530.F52923@mail.webmonster.de> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:04:12 +0300 In-Reply-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach"'s message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:15:30 +0200" Message-ID: <86elrlc10z.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Karsten W. Rohrbach" writes: > Giorgos Keramidas(keramida@ceid.upatras.gr)@2001.07.10 05:13:44 +0000: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > > > The base system is not registered into the packages > > > system, because of sysinstall. > > > > It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src. > > I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge > > freebsd_base-5.0-current-20010624 in the packages list, or a zillion > > freebsd_base-bin, freebsd_base-etc, etc. installed. > > this would be too rpm-ish ;-) then you would also catch the dependency > problems with 'package foo needs bar2.0; baz4.3 provides bar1.5; need to > upgrade baz* to baz4.4; baz4.4 depends on bar2.2; bar2.0 cannot be > upgrade because of dependency loop; ...' That was meant as an irony. I like the base system the way it is, in one (admittedly big) but well defined piece. This RPM-ish behavior in contrast to the 'buildworld/installworld' of FreeBSD was what made me switch to BSD in the first place. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message