On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:57:19AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > At 04:43 17/03/2004, Scott Long wrote: > >FreeBSD is an operating > >system. It is not a kernel with interchangeable userland pieces. > > Nor, I think, do many users want a kernel with interchangeable > userland pieces. What I hear from many users, however, is that > they would like an operating system with optional pieces -- so > that they could sysinstall FreeBSD without sendmail, named, or > doscmd (to take a random example). This is something I would very much like to see. As it is now I rip out the printing system, sendmail, bind from all the FreeBSD installations I do. For those who must know I install CUPS, Postfix and Bind-9.x instead. I have no problem with FreeBSD having a default set of 'packages' but it would be nice to be able to maintain a binary release of freebsd where I can choose userland pacakeges with sysinstall and not (allways) having to maintain my own src-tree with things turned of from wich I create my 'own' freebsd. If the freebsd team is positive towards having parts of freebsd as packages I would like to commit some time into making this possible. Maybe not for 5.3 but for later releases. I understand this discussion can turn into a bikeshed situation. I hope it doesn't end there ;) Sven EsbjergReceived on Wed Mar 17 2004 - 02:04:52 UTC
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