BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???

[Peter Risdon]

DK wrote:
> --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>>All of these are available on FreeBSD too (except Mercury Mailserver,
>>which is just another Win32 MTA that I don't know about but somehow feel
>>reluctant to trust more than my Sendmail or Postfix installations).
> 
> 
> Yes, but not as ONE nice Package:
> eg: FreeBSD PORTS
> apache+mod_perl-1.3.31 
> apache+mod_ssl+ipv6-1.3.31+2.8.18_4 
>[snip]

Hi,

You're probably aware of this already, but FreeBSD is developed 
collaboratively. I'm just a user, and have nothing at all to do with the 
project.

There are a few things called meta-ports which install a load of stuff 
at once - there's one for installing an *instant workstation*, for 
example. If anyone had felt the need to produce one for the setup you're 
describing, or indeed that it would be a sensible thing to do, they 
would have done it.

As a matter of fact, the PHP port has just been made even less like the 
way you'd like it to be - and for some excellent reasons, I now see. I 
didn't at first but I was wrong, not the port maintainer.

You might step back a moment and reflect that you might be missing some 
very important points. The arguments you made are based on things that 
have, after all, been apparent to everyone always. FreeBSD is as it is 
by design, not negligence or backwardness.

FreeBSD might well not be for you. Luckily, we can choose which 
operating system suits us best. But until you figure out why things are 
done this way with FreeBSD, and then consider the merits of this 
approach, you're not going to get anywhere with it.

Regards,

Peter.