Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:17:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) Message-ID: <19981029091751.N25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36374BB1.5D25725A@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:52:01AM -0700 References: <19981028091347.W20920@freebie.lemis.com> <199810272320.QAA12516@usr04.primenet.com> <19981028092740.A3113@shale.csir.co.za> <36374BB1.5D25725A@softweyr.com>
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On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 9:52:01 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Jeremy Lea wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:20:30PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> I was thinking in terms of a script (or package) that used the >>> output of "pkg_info -a -q" (or set dependencies) such that the >>> installation was straight-forward, given the commercial vendor's >>> installation media. >> >> Why not just have a new ports category called "commercial"? That way it is >> easy to make sure the software installs on all versions of FreeBSD, etc. and >> that the required dependencies are installed. Obviously this would require >> that FreeBSD, Inc. be supplied with demo copies of all the software :) > > Or just a web or ftp download site. Aren't ports cool? > > Plus, this would save us from going to a 6- or 8-CD distribution, something > I'm certain Jordan doesn't want to contemplate. > > I guess we could make a "FreeBSD Enterprise" distribution, with CD's of > all of the different applications we can support, and put it in one of > those big CD books Sun uses. ;^) Aren't we rather getting off the original tack of certifying software offered for sale? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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