sysinstall v2

Robert Garrett rg70 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 4 12:21:18 PDT 2003


Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:

> -On [20030904 00:42], Simon 'corecode' Schubert (corecode at xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> wrote:
>>how about rsync?
>>it's such a usefull tool, i wished several it was part of the base...
> 
> Everything you bring in from something like ports to base will require
> maintenance.  Just like the hell named, cvs, perl, sendmail, and so on
> already kindly provides for us.
> 
> It shouldn't be needed.  Anyone who's building a release already has a
> whacked sense of contributing ( :P ) so adding prerequisites from ports
> doesn't matter.  For all I care you make another directory in the CVS
> root for the whole release shebang, it's specialized material anyway,
> why clutter the base with it?
> 
> This would keep release engineering and the real OS/kernel truly
> seperated at no cost and much benefit.
> 
Thanks asmo... really appreciate your help here bro :)

btw can you be conned into writing the documentation for the new
installer... :P

Rob





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