Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:09:21 -0500 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAGsORuAzXzb1XURUbOhMEHAvf581swpFqUxSUrQXLPamii4Mzw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <63507.1347905101@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB%2BfO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ@mail.gmail.com> <63507.1347905101@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In message <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB+fO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ@mail.gmail.com> > , Zhihao Yuan writes: > >>Well, let's make it more straightforward. I hope people can agree with >>this: a default, officially supported modern desktop environment is >>essential to FreeBSD. > > No, it is not. > > It would certainly be nice to have as an option, but I would hate > to have to deal with it, when I squeeze FreeBSD into embedded systems > which have neither graphics outputs nor keyboard or mouse inputs. "Default" does not mean you "have to" install it. Default means when you are looking for a DE, bsdinstall, handbook, official site, all of them answers "*DE". > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ___________________________________________________ 4BSD -- http://4bsd.biz/
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