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. -- Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. - C. Edwin Baker http://www.ad-mad.co.uk/quotes/freespeech.htm
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