Doug Barton wrote:
The story so far ...
sysinstall was removed from HEAD in October. I (and others) objected on
the basis that at this time there is no replacement for the post-install
configuration role that sysinstall played. More sysinstall components
were then removed. Then the old version of libdialog (which sysinstall
used) was removed. Thus at this point it's not possible to easily
restore sysinstall.
So my question is, how much do you care? Is lack of that functionality
in HEAD something that we care about?
Doug
We have around 90 web servers running 8.2p5 right now [and yes, I did
update the lot on Christmas Eve but that's a different story] and they
will not be upgraded to 9.0 until/unless the post-install functionality
that was lost by the removal of sysinstall is reintegrated in some way.
I also complained about it and was told in effect, "too bad." Everyone
who commented said sysinstall caused more problems than it solved,
although I've been using it for any system changes I needed that it was
capable of doing for as long back as I can remember, and my first
FreeBSD box was v2.2.
I think removing any functionality that was in a previous release
without providing an equal-or-better alternative is a bad idea, and that
needs to be considered more carefully in the future.
So this is not just a +1 vote, it's a +90.
--
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX
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