Bakul Shah wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:37:25 BST Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> The current blend of components is largely historical, modeling the mix found >> in BSD UNIX, and strikes a hard-to-characterize balance between the logical >> extremes "we ship a minimally bootstrapping system" and "we ship every >> application under the sun". This means for most parts of the base system >> there will be someone who argues it belongs there, and someone who argues that >> it doesn't. > > What would be nice is if the install CDs came with a small > number of "profiles" (mini, midi & maxi) and made it easy to > pick a profile and install/upgrade to the system described in > it. Nicer still would be if there was a way to create custom > profiles for specific purposes. Then you have an easy way to > clone the same setup to multiple machines. [Not that it would > stop such arguments....] I am sure we have been here before! I don't think Robert intended this thread to turn into Yet Another Bikeshed, isn't it? SCNR, Philipp
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