I'm one of them, but I'm not a newbie, I'm a Linux sysadmin (more or
less 30 years now) and I use OpenBSD mainly as a server platform so I do
not install x*, games and comp. I used all the sets once, when I tried
OpenBSD on my laptop.
And I hate when sysupgrade installs all the sets regardless I have
originally installed them or not, but, as someone already said, the
storage is cheap now.
As veduma.
On 4/24/26 9:39 AM, Janne Johansson wrote:
Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2026 um 08:26 Uhr schrieb Florian Obser <[email protected]>:
The party line really is: "You have to install all sets, otherwise you
are not running OpenBSD and you are on your own." I.e. the advice can be
much firmer. I don't think we should link to the FAQ from the installer.
Then why do we still have these sets and not only one?
Because some people actually manage to "be on their own" and can
choose not to have X11 on their serial-console-only routers and so on.
Those people will not be installing gtk to get wireshark on the router
and will not get stumped by missing x11 makes "pkg_add wireshark" act
up during install.
