From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 05:10:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B040D16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:10:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEB743D49 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:10:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B181B512AF; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:15:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:15:53 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Rahul Siddharthan Message-ID: <20041130051553.GA67210@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr> <1101788709.41abf62519b57@imp2-q.free.fr> <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org> <1101791219.41abfff31d3a7@imp1-q.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1101791219.41abfff31d3a7@imp1-q.free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: "Jason C. Wells" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:10:47 -0000 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:06:59AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Quoting Kris Kennaway : >=20 > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:25:09AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > lying around after an installworld. People have posted patches > > > on FreeBSD lists to register parts of the world in the pkg database, > > > but there's no chance of it becoming mainstream. > > > > On the contrary, some of us have been asking for this for years, but I > > haven't seen anyone come up with a useful proof of concept. Where are > > these patches? >=20 > Colin Percival's patches: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023804.html >=20 > Ruslan Ermilov talks about plans for a "make uninstall target": > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023961.html >=20 > Read the whole thread though, and also the "Pkg-based base system" thread > the same month, for a sample of reactions. Thanks. Both of those people are FreeBSD committers though, so I don't know why you think there's "no chance of it becoming mainstream". Kris --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBrAIJWry0BWjoQKURAs7BAJ4paEU6Kk2w+nH9A4wt4lqGHdOklACgmLiv PLYO5w2698vTXPWaYxNiC1g= =oxWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--