Pkg-based base system.

Johan Pettersson manlix at demonized.net
Mon Mar 15 04:57:28 PST 2004


If you want to remove it would be nice to have the ability to remove it with pkg_delete. Maybe I want to remove gcc, binutils whatever. I think the base-system should be pkg-based. It is much more flexible.

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:51:21 +0100
Kai Voigt <k at 123.org> wrote:

> Johan Pettersson wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be nice to have ha pkg-based base system? So you easily can remove parts from the base system, like openssh, ipfw, ipf, bind, sendmail and so on. This couldn't be too hard to implement. :)
> 
> Why would you remove such parts? They all are small and don't harm anyone
> when not being used.
> 
> And "make world" after a CVS update is much more elegant than updating a
> row of ports.
> 
> Kai
> 
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