Removing Sendmail

[The Anarcat]

On Wed Apr 02, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > I really think splitting the base in some sub-parts would it make much 
> > easier to do NO_SENDMAIL on my own. So I had to remove each not required 
> > file separately. That's no good solution.
> 
>  [stepping back a bit ]
> 
> I find an odd situation here whenever this topic comes up.  One the
> one hand, people are always wanting to split the entire base system
> up into small packages for each little piece of the base.  On the
> other hand, one of FreeBSD's selling points in real-world environments
> is that it doesn't have a bunch of little packages for the base system
> like Linux distros.  Do people really prefer something like having
> rpm's for /bin/ps to having one lump base dist for all of /bin, /sbin,
> etc.?

Those two aren't necessarly in contradiction. We could provide a
myriad of small packages and a "wrapper package" containing them all.

Debian has "tasks" to deal with this, it's a meta package that solely
depend on other packages. We could do something similar, or even
better: make a meta package that actually embeds the other package
files.

No I don't have any patches.

A.

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