Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:54:29 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't make world without the "games" group? Message-ID: <20080827005429.3dece5c5@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080826172030.GB24840@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <f1019d520808010831s39c803fan9a35fcd17f010fc5@mail.gmail.com> <87abf487wg.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260201o27009529v43aa7ae8c35d7304@mail.gmail.com> <87abezx5yr.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260829h3a16825fx6eb6b2d713051aaf@mail.gmail.com> <871w0bpyqh.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20080826172030.GB24840@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:20:31 -0400 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > I have wondered if it might be reasonable to put a bunch of (more) > of that sort of stuff in a select list during installation so a > user can choose right then if certain things will be retained or > dropped on the floor. Most of the base system options are either highly-technical or bike-shed options like removing games. If those options are exposed in the installer, they should be buried so deep you need caving equipment. > Fortune and games and even the latest Perl > and some other things might be good candidates for that select list. > > I know there is a place where you can run through pretty much the > whole list of ports and select, but that is really too overwhelming. > I would suggest this be a separate list, mostly limited to those > things that many people want (but others don't) in the base system. Personally I think it's a very bad idea to blur the distinction between base system and packages in the installer. If you already know FreeBSD, it's potentially confusing; if you don't it just reinforces the misconception that everything is a package.
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