"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Giorgos Keramidas([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.10 05:13:44 +0000:
> > 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.
>
> this would be too rpm-ish ;-) then you would also catch the dependency
> problems with 'package foo needs bar2.0; baz4.3 provides bar1.5; need to
> upgrade baz* to baz4.4; baz4.4 depends on bar2.2; bar2.0 cannot be
> upgrade because of dependency loop; ...'
That was meant as an irony. I like the base system the way it is, in one
(admittedly big) but well defined piece. This RPM-ish behavior in contrast to
the 'buildworld/installworld' of FreeBSD was what made me switch to BSD in the
first place.
-giorgos
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