From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 15:17:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2D014C9F for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA47316; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:16:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:16:37 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904282017.NAA01044@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Mike Smith wrote: > > Please make the default NOT to build them, as this is totally > > useless for servers that don't run X or are headless. > > Since the overhead is minimal, and costs nothing at runtime, the > default would be to build _with_ them. Please focus your worry on > things that actually matter to the server application. 8) We're rapidly approaching the time when upgrading an older box with a 32meg (default) / partition will involve repartitioning, since 32megs won't hold it all. To have to do that for functionality is one thing, to have to do it for icons on "The Power to Serve" OS seems an oxymoron. I just hope someone drops a tag before the system goes totally GUI. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message