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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:44:06 -0500
From:      "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
To:        "Keith Jones" <freebsd.dev@blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc:        <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available
Message-ID:  <008901c2bc3f$f9d9b070$0200000a@sewer.org>
References:  <004101c2bc33$69323fd0$0200000a@sewer.org> <3E24B87B.3000709@blueyonder.co.uk>

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These mentioned licensing issues make sense, however I still think that
there should be some sort of system to ensure big and/or popular packages to
make it to CD #1.

-Craig

> > One thing I noticed in previous releases is that the choice of
> > packages is a
> > little odd. Many small packages and ones that are not popular seem to
make
> > it on the first CD, while bigger and/or more popular ones are stuck
being
> > fetched+built manually after. This can be a pain on slower computers,
> > especially with ports such as mozilla and openoffice. I guess what I am
> > suggesting is that more attention be paid to _which_ ports make in onto
CD
> > #1.
>
>
> Doesn't OpenOffice.Org require the Sun JDK? If so, might that be a bit
> of a problem due to licensing restrictions?
>
> I wouldn't see a problem with Mozilla, though. Except that it is quite,
> quite bloated. ;)
>
> Keith
>



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