Re: Pkg-based base system.

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:51:31 +0100
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles_at_skynet.be> wrote:

> 	On virtually every Unix system I've ever administered over the 
> past fifteen years, there have been parts to the system that I didn't 
> like.  So, I brought in something else, and set that up.  You can do 
> the same here, and the ports system tries to make that as easy as 
> possible.  If you want to build from source, there are a whole bunch 
> of "NO_" targets that have been defined so that you don't even build 
> those parts of the system if you don't want them (and don't want to 
> run the risk that updating them will overwrite your current config).
> 
> 	But I don't see why we have to try to force-fit all OSes in the 
> world into the Linux package-for-everything model.  On any FreeBSD 
> system I ever touch, I expect certain things to be in there, and I 
> don't want to see things like vi no being available anywhere on the 
> system because my insane predecessor was an emacs fanatic.
> 

Basic unix-tools for administration should be there. And package based
base-system maybe isnt so good at all. But something that removes
sendmail when running make installworld if NO_SENDMAIL is set in
make.conf