Pkg-based base system.

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David O'Brien [mailto:dev-null at NUXI.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:11 AM
> To: Sven Esbjerg
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:03:57PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote:
> > If the freebsd team is positive towards having parts of 
> freebsd as packages I
> > would like to commit some time into making this possible. 
> Maybe not for 5.3
> > but for later releases.
> 
> I for one, am negative towards having parts of [base] freebsd as
> packages.
>  
> > I understand this discussion can turn into a bikeshed 
> situation. I hope it
> > doesn't end there ;)
> 
> It was a bikeshed starting with the very first email starting this
> thread...

I'm not sure why this is such a big problem - I have certainly 
wanted to remove e.g. BIND or sendmail after deciding to use 
something else. I think it would be most useful in a situation where
you have an already installed system that you then define NO_XXX 
make variables for during a buildworld, and then want to clean out
the old/unupdated stuff.

On the other hand, I have been using Gentoo linux for awhile on this
amd64 workstation and I have to say, what a pain in the ass it was
to install! Imagine my surprise when I wanted to use traceroute and
found I needed to install it as a package. And vi. And syslog. And
cron! It was absurd.

-Will