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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 1995 23:27:14 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: httpd as part of the system.
Message-ID:  <199503250627.XAA26620@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> "Re: httpd as part of the system." (Mar 24,  2:50pm)

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> > We can always cater to the folks who *want* the stuff right now with
> > packages.  However, we can't make the distribution smaller if we add it
> > to the 'standard' tree w/out a way to NOT install it.
> 
> Already done.

Cool.

> Hey, Nate, have you installed a FreeBSD box lately? :-)

Obviously not.  The last 'install' I did was 2.0R.  Everything since
then has been incremental updates from -current.

> We only "make" them install the bindist.  Everything else is purely
> optional.

The *bindist* is still a monster, and you're proposing that we add two
more large binaries to it.  We need to break up the bindist into smaller
more managable pieces ala Linux, SCO, Unixware, etc...


Nate



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