Three cheers for the status quo, enough now? (was: Re: tmux(1) in base)

Horst Günther Burkhardt III horst at sxemacs.org
Thu Sep 24 23:35:48 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 00:47 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:37:25 BST Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:

> What would be nice is if the install CDs came with a small
> number of "profiles" (mini, midi & maxi) and made it easy to
> pick a profile and install/upgrade to the system described in
> it.  Nicer still would be if there was a way to create custom
> profiles for specific purposes. Then you have an easy way to
> clone the same setup to multiple machines. [Not that it would
> stop such arguments....] I am sure we have been here before!

We already DO have profiles. They're called 'install sets'.

More specifically than this, there is a way to set up clones of similar
configurations across multiple machines, it's called rolling your own
install media. :)
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