* Helge Oldach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Count this my strong vote against removal of packages that are > traditionally part of the base system.
I hate sendmail with a passion. I use exim; hence it's just added bloat sitting in my rather full /usr. The existance of more up-to-date ports for a lot of what's in the base system means many people don't want any trace of them from the base system; e.g. Perl. Additionally, many parts of the base system are not required or wanted on simple systems; if I have a tiny 486 I want to turn into a firewall, I don't want to spend hours trimming down the base system to fit on it. I suggest we extend the package system to include the base system; then I can just do env PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/syspkg pkg_deinstall sendmail-6.6.6, and sysinstall can more easily NOT install things I don't want, without impacting users who do want them. Or maybe everyone who doesn't want to use sendmail should switch to NetBSD w/ syspkg :) -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/ - Lackland's Laws: (1) Never be first. (2) Never be last. (3) Never volunteer for anything To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
