Pkg-based base system.
Johan Pettersson
manlix at demonized.net
Wed Mar 17 13:11:07 PST 2004
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:51:31 +0100
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
> 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.
>
Basic unix-tools for administration should be there. And package based
base-system maybe isnt so good at all. But something that removes
sendmail when running make installworld if NO_SENDMAIL is set in
make.conf
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