From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 13:35:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D22437B406 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E2943E3B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0451.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.196] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17SOBC-0004C1-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:35:18 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2C9A5C.B5701103@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:34:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system wishlist References: <200207101459.g6AExQfP034695@cwsys.cwsent.com> <20020710223309.A69788@regency.nsu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you sure you don't work for Microsoft or Linux? ;^). The way "brain-storming" works is to capture all ideas, whether you agree with them or not. After you capture all the ideas, you then switch from "brain-storming" to "collation and analysis". So it's important to not comment on other people's ideas right now, but to offer your own. Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > o I want to be able to remove system components, like "sendmail" > > > and "OpenSSH". > > > > Ideally everything should install as a package, however that would > > Currently, I cannot agree with this. I had enough head ache in the past > dealing with packages of "compatibility symlinks", man pages, and so on, > which seems overly ridiculous to me. I don't consider this worthwhile. > Generally, I prefer base as monolithic collection of bits. It is a prerequisite for: o Ability to do binary upgrades of the base system in order to automatically (e.g. via cron) obtain, and optionally install, security and other fixes. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message