From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 11:35:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB13B37B423 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 11:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 11:35:24 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:35:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: upgrades [each time more trouble] Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Message-ID: <3B162C7A.19394.E7BE8@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:40:35 +0200 > From: Steffen Hein > Subject: Re: upgrades [each time more trouble] > > This opinion plainly ignores that the port collection is sold along with > the [basic system] FreeBSD CD distribution and that a minimum of working > printer software is, in fact, essential - for any OS to be serviceable. > - - This to such a degree that the distributor of an OS cannot simply > refer to 'third party applications', here. > > Everybody buying a car would look quite stange, if the vendor referred > to the tires, for instance, as a 'third party product', for which he > rejects all responsibility. Please tell that to Ford Motor Co. :-) Personally while I agree to a point, I don't hold the ports collection up to the same standards as the core OS. Perhaps what the original poster really is saying, in effect, is that he wishes the printing capability he needs was part of the core OS, since he considers it a basic function. (Which to me is a more reasonable suggestion than hoping for the FreeBSD team to micromanage various idiosyncracies of the thousands of ports designed to work with the OS.) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message