Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:04:10 -0400 From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> To: "Pierre Beyssac" <beyssac@enst.fr>, "David G Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu> Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: package-like feature for the base distrib (was Re: FreeSSH) Message-ID: <011801bf159c$f80630e0$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> References: <199910131428.KAA11701@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199910131436.IAA02185@faith.cs.utah.edu> <00a801bf158d$421afc20$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> <19991013183345.A24019@enst.fr>
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Hi, From: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> > There are a _lot_ of pitfalls to this kind of approach, as I have > discovered using Linux Debian. This would probably open a can of > worms you have no idea of. IMHO, the single biggest mistake in > Debian is the all-encompassing package system which can make your > life miserable in no time. [...] I was not talking about things that constitute the "real" core of the distribution (kernel, basic libraries etc.). I was more thinking about "userland" stuff that is included in the distribution but might not be required by everybody. Sendmail for example is something I don't want since I user qmail. However I have to remove it by hand... Other examples are bind or perl. Basically I think anything that has an equivalent and/or an alternate installation method in/via the "ports" system should be registered with the rest of the packages. > And, IMHO, package handling for general-purpose applications and > package handling for the core system are a very different problem > and should be handled in very different ways. Agreed. This is the key. The package/ports system is really great as is. The split between the distribution and the packages/ports is sometime annoying. Again I think this mostly concerns "userland" features that are not required for the core of FreeBSD. 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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