On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:13:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The base system is not registered into the packages
> > system, because of sysinstall.
>
> It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src.
> I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge
> freebsd_base-5.0-current-20010624 in the packages list, or a zillion
> freebsd_base-bin, freebsd_base-etc, etc. installed.
FWIW, it would be a pretty trivial matter to fake up package metadata
for the sysinstall distributions after they're installed. You'd just
generate the plist from the contents of the distribution tarball.
This would be useful for deinstalling optional collections like
kerberos or the header files, which is currently impossible.
Perhaps Terry would like to do this to solve one of the issues on his
list: I'll be happy to work with him to get a satisfactory
implementation committed.
> > X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package.
>
> But... but... I did install only those parts of X11 that I wanted.
> I'm not sure I understand this claim.
I'm not sure it's even correct any longer. i.e. I seem to recall X is
installed as a package thesedays, not a distribution.
Kris
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