From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 27 10:49:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F0E37B419 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:49:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from gauss ([65.96.190.131]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020327184932.TIEW1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@gauss> for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:49:32 +0000 Message-ID: <03a901c1d5c0$14af6280$0200a8c0@gauss> From: "Yeasah Pell" To: References: <026501c1d561$90d61de0$0200a8c0@gauss> <200203270836.JAA29261@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> <20020327105845.GA9999@voi.aagh.net> <20020327135822.GA10110@laptop.lambertfam.org> Subject: base system vs. packages Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:49:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:58:45AM +0000, Thomas Hurst wrote: > > I suggest we extend the package system to include the base system; then > > I can just do env PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/syspkg pkg_deinstall sendmail-6.6.6, > > and sysinstall can more easily NOT install things I don't want, without > > impacting users who do want them. > > Congratulations! You are the 1,000th person to volunteer to do this. > When may we expect the patches? You seem to be indicating that this is popularly held to be the right thing to do, but that nobody has the time to do it. Is this true? In any case, you evidently missed Thomas' signature from the above-quoted message... guess we won't have a volunteer here. ;-) /Yeasah >-- >Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ >- >Lackland's Laws: >(1) Never be first. >(2) Never be last. >(3) Never volunteer for anything To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message