Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:06:59 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <1101791219.41abfff31d3a7@imp1-q.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr> <FA1860B97FADCA625C68119A@[192.168.1.16]> <1101788709.41abf62519b57@imp2-q.free.fr> <20041130045622.GA51989@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>: > 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? Colin Percival's patches: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023804.html Ruslan Ermilov talks about plans for a "make uninstall target": http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023961.html Read the whole thread though, and also the "Pkg-based base system" thread the same month, for a sample of reactions. Rahul
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