tmux(1) in base

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:19:46AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Joel Dahl <joel at FreeBSD.org> [090921 09:17] wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein skrev:
> > >* Garrett Wollman <wollman at hergotha.csail.mit.edu> [090921 06:10] wrote:
> > >>In article <20090921130346.GY21946 at elvis.mu.org> you write:
> > >>
> > >>>I think he already explained that it's supposedly much better than
> > >>>window(1) with a kinder license than screen(1).
> > >>>
> > >>>We really ought to ship with a screen(1)-like program.
> > >>sudo pkg_add -r screen
> > >>
> > >>Problem solved.
> > >
> > >WORKS GREAT ESP WHEN NETWORK IS DOWN AND SOMEONE NEEDS MY HELP.
> > >
> > >WORKS AWESOME ON REALLY OLD MACHINES WHERE PACKAGES NO LONGER
> > >EXIST.
> > >
> > >Note: Apple, which cares more about a usable userland unix than
> > >we do at this time has screen installed in base as well.
> > 
> > OpenBSD has tmux in base...and I've seen discussions on the NetBSD lists 
> > about importing tmux (as a window(1) replacement) into NetBSD base as 
> > well...  :-)
> 
> I dunno Joel, we wouldn't want to get crazy and ship a system that
> was usable out of the box, I'd like to go back to a Solaris
> circa 1999 like system, y'know, kernel+/bin/sh, don't need much
> more than that y'know...
> 

When you install the box, install the port.  This isn't rocket
science.

Can we also add perl back to the base system?  It is much more
useful than tmux/screen.  

-- 
Steve