On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Wes Peters wrote:
> Laurence Berland wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rasputin wrote:
> >
> > > I may be low on caffeine, but I don't see how breaking up the base system
> > > into packages makes it any easier to upgrade than using cvsup?
> >
> > I think the discussion is Re: binary upgrades, like putting in the CD and
> > hitting that upgrade option, which right now doesn't quite get you there
> > afaik.
>
> I don't think the goal was to make the system easier to upgrade, but rather
> easier to subset. Do we really NEED to have sendmail on every DNS server
> we put together?
Also very true. But in the context of upgrades, which is what Rasputin
was coming from, it's a binary upgrade issue, not a source one, which is
why cvsup isn't a fair comparison. I definitely think it'd be nice to
have things like sendmail somewhat more separate.
>
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>
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