Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:50:10 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> To: Christer Solskogen <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strip FreeBSD a bit Message-ID: <20030831065010.GA23179@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <3F5193E2.8060805@carebears.mine.nu> References: <3F50C956.70603@carebears.mine.nu> <20030830151544.G21642@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <3F5193E2.8060805@carebears.mine.nu>
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Christer, I think its a bad idea to remove components from FreeBSD that everybody would expect in a BSD. I think you touch areas here like tradition ... In Linux its another thing, they don't have such a tradition, since Linux is only a kernel and Linux never defined a Linux basde system. So there you can discuss of having sendmail, exim, postfix or qmail installed by default or not. IMHO I think its a good thing that a normal FreeBSD installation includes bind and sendmail. This makes FreeBSD a complete (standard/traditional) Unix after basic installation. Things like perl had to go for other reasons in 5.x it was related to difficulties in the build process and RPITA concerning how the p5- ports fit into a scheme perl5 in base system + newer perl5 under /usr/local. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/
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