Midnight Commander in base distribution set

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Aug 4 16:31:19 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said:
> --- Scott Oertel <freebsd at scottevil.com> wrote:
> > I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a
> > better, more lightweight tool then mc?
> 
> I would also like to hear recommendations for alternatives to mc that
> are light weight, work on the command line **and** are either
> included on the FreeBSD installation CD or would be appropriate
> additions to the installation CD.

Actually, mc is pretty lightweight if you disable all the options.  Note
that the dependency on Perl isn't listed in OPTIONS, so you have to
disable it manually in the port Makefile by setting
WITHOUT_PERL_MODULES=yes

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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