Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:00:05 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Back to sysinstall 
Message-ID:  <199812180300.TAA00859@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:42:39 CST." <199812180142.TAA02468@n4hhe.ampr.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 
> It wouldn't be such a bad idea if *everything* was a package (including
> the kernel) leaving sysinstall to be a glorified pkg_add. SGI's Irix is 
> this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar.

We're working on this.  It presents some unique problems when you 
attempt to interact with "make world", but there is yet hope.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199812180300.TAA00859>