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Date:      Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:28:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        freebsd@jdc.parodius.com
Cc:        stas@FreeBSD.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, randy@psg.com, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Results of BIND RFC
Message-ID:  <20100402.122836.41723967.sthaug@nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: <20100402101454.GA62089@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <20100402021715.669838e0.stas@FreeBSD.org> <11597.1270200291@critter.freebsd.dk> <20100402101454.GA62089@icarus.home.lan>

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> [1]: FreeBSD really needs to move away from the "base system" as a
> concept, as I've ranted about in the past.

Strongly disagree.

> Or if it cannot, the "base
> system" needs to start using pkg_* (somehow) for use, and src.conf
> WITHOUT_xxx (where xxx = some software) removed.  Concept being: "I
> don't need Kerberos; pkg_delete base-krb5.  I also don't need lib32;
> pkg_delete base-lib32".  Beautiful concept, hard to implement due to
> libraries being yanked out from underneathe binaries that are linked to
> them.  But you get the idea.

This *might* be workable. However, in general - a large part of the
reason why I use FreeBSD is that the FreeBSD base system gives me
most of what I want, in *one* well defined chunk, *without* having
to install a zillion extra packages, and without umpteen different
versions of config files and locations for the important information.

So please don't destroy this.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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