Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:37:11 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <199803021937.LAA13270@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:52:57 PST." <488.888828777@time.cdrom.com>
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> > "Now it'd be nice if"© a simple dialog box popped > > up during sysinstall saying, "hey, you chose to install X, you have > > less than N megabytes for /usr, but you have 3 Terabytes in > > /usr/local: [do you want to | you should ] create /usr/local/X11R6, > > and make a symlink in /usr ?" > > > > I might (*shudder*) even look at sysinstall's code (*tremble*) > > and see if I can do it myself, if there's interest. > > Talk to Mike Smith - he's already (*shudder* :-) in this area of the > code trying to figure out how to do proper sizing information for > everything, not just the X bits, and implement proper "you're 30% > done" progress bars. It sounds to me like what you want would fall > out of this fairly easily. The "newbie" install will actually get around that by taking the easy-but-bad way out and not assuming that you want to do anything fancy with your disk layout. I expect to wear a lot of flak about this from experienced users that would never use a "newbie" install, but I also hope to reduce the number of complaints from people who don't have enough space in /tmp or /var. For more advanced users, or those wanting a more traditional layout, the intention is to complain about space problems *before* starting the installation. A question - would it be desirable for X to be installed, by default, somewhere *else*, and just symlinked into /usr? Should it go in /usr/local, so that an experienced admin can assign a separate filesystem for this? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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