Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:11:43 -0400 From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> To: "David G Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <00a801bf158d$421afc20$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> References: <199910131428.KAA11701@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199910131436.IAA02185@faith.cs.utah.edu>
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Hi All, > It strikes me that having the base system be slightly more decomposed > could be advantageous. It would be great to be able to do something like: > > pkg_delete lp > pkg_delete yp > > Has anyone done/tried this in the past, and if so, what was the > reaction? Or what do people think? I realize this sounds a bit like the > "everything is an rpm or dpkg" methodology from Linux, but as long as the > 'base' packages are handled automatically, then it shouldn't impose the > same inconvenience. I think that it would be the next best thing since the package/ports system (as well as a logical step forward). I would love to see most of the things that installed with a "make world" be also registered in the package database. This would make things like upgrading bind, removing sendmail etc a lot easier. However I think that this discussion goes beyond the scope of the "security" mailing list. I copied it to the "current" and "stable" lists as well. I guess the discussion should be held in "current"... Patrick. -- MindStep Corporation www.mindstep.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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