* patrick keshishian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what does "morph OpenBSD into linux mean"? > > What I meant by that comment is that, I used to enjoy the fact that if > I didn't want gnome, dbus, cups, python, samba, mysql, postgresql, > qt[34], etc on my system, I had FLAVORS that afforded me that option > out-of-the-box. It seems, now, -- and I do not mean to bring up this > discussion again, but you are asking and i'm trying to clarify with > this example -- if i want to install gimp, i'm forced to live with a > slew of other software i have no intention nor desire to use and/or > worry about maintaining. Now, i manually tweak ports to cut the crud > out.
We try to make packages useful for what we think could be the avarage use. To make it easy for users to actually work with the software on OpenBSD. Of course we can not make everyone happy... ;) > > --patrick > -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ "In God we trust, in C we code."
