Pkg-based base system.

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:42 PM +0100 2004/03/17, Johan Pettersson wrote:

>                                                  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.

	On virtually every Unix system I've ever administered over the 
past fifteen years, there have been parts to the system that I didn't 
like.  So, I brought in something else, and set that up.  You can do 
the same here, and the ports system tries to make that as easy as 
possible.  If you want to build from source, there are a whole bunch 
of "NO_" targets that have been defined so that you don't even build 
those parts of the system if you don't want them (and don't want to 
run the risk that updating them will overwrite your current config).

	But I don't see why we have to try to force-fit all OSes in the 
world into the Linux package-for-everything model.  On any FreeBSD 
system I ever touch, I expect certain things to be in there, and I 
don't want to see things like vi no being available anywhere on the 
system because my insane predecessor was an emacs fanatic.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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