Pkg-based base system.

[Colin Percival]

At 04:43 17/03/2004, Scott Long wrote:
 >FreeBSD is an operating
>system.  It is not a kernel with interchangeable userland pieces.

   Nor, I think, do many users want a kernel with interchangeable
userland pieces.  What I hear from many users, however, is that
they would like an operating system with optional pieces -- so
that they could sysinstall FreeBSD without sendmail, named, or
doscmd (to take a random example).

Colin Percival