From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 6:26: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40D237C05B for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12nLd0-0005Cv-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 15:25:18 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:25:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Derrick Baumer Cc: rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org, dhesi@rahul.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!?) Message-ID: <20000504152518.C19808@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200005020949.CAA18177@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005020949.CAA18177@earthlink.net>; from bduk@earthlink.net on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:49:39AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Yeah! Or even *BETTER*, it could have a graphical dialog and you > could just press "next" and select a couple of radio buttons or such, > then hit "next" again, and when it's all done, just hit "finish"! > It could be completely SIMPLE! Everything could be stored in a > central "registry" file - all of your preferences for every program, > all of the file locations and such, and the entire system would be > entirely, absolutely, automatically FOOLPROOF! :) That sounds good. Maybe I'll add something like that to portconf. > If that sounds good to you, you've got the wrong operating system. > The reason I'm using FreeBSD is because I can crawl under the hood and > put it together myself. You use it because you _can_, and because you aren't _unable_ to. You still can with the abovementioned system, if it's written correctly. If you _have_ to go under the hood for everything, then you're a masochist. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message