Pkg-based base system.

[dodell at sitetronics.com]

And if you would all please note, Colin Percival has implemented this while
you were busy whining.

Please pardon my lack of ``netiquette'' in this post. I'm using a web email
gateway. Sue me if it 
doesn't wrap.

David: perhaps you should send your next flame to /dev/null. If you can't
help, don't hinder.

--Devon

Original Message:
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From: Johan Pettersson manlix at demonized.net
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:42:32 +0100
To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org, dev-null at NUXI.com
Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system.


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:09:38 -0800
"David O'Brien" <dev-null at NUXI.com> wrote:

> Johan,
> 
> 1. DON'T TOP POST, follow Netiquette (and trim what you quote).
> 2. WRAP your lines, this is a traditional Unix based list -- lines
> less
>    than 79 characters long, thank you very much
> 3. Thank you for starting the monthly bikeshed.  If you don't know how
>    much a bikeshed this is (or even what a 'bikeshed' is), go read the
>    archives.
> 3. Sounds like you want Linux with its RPM's, not BSD.  We consciously
>    don't wrap the base system in pkg_add tarballs.  We generally LIKE
>    the entire system being a single integrated blob.

Yes, it wraps at 72 characters now. And I don't know what a bikeshed is,
never heard of it before. I just wanted to start a discussion about
a feature that _I_ think would be good. Isn't that what the mailinglist
is for? Discussion. And no, I don't want Linux. I like FreeBSD, but why
should I have things that I don't use installed? Yes, you can use
find(1) as mentioned by someone but it could be simplified.

I apologize for everything bad this may have caused. It wasn't my
intention. And I apologize for what I wrote in my first post:
"This couldn't be too hard to implement. :)". It was ironic. Notice the
":)". But I should think twice before writing something like that next
time.
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