Re: new wiki page: guide for system administrators

[Stanley Lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Stanley Lieber
> <stanley.lieber@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:54 PM, cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> yeah, we should go arround and *REMOVE* stuff instead of
>>> adding more and more bloated ape ports. i would have no
>>> objection if the (cvs) program you add is small and compiles
>>> in like a second. but these big ape programs that take
>>> *MINUTES* to compile really suck.
>>
>> taruti's pkg(1) utility is a good replacement for contrib(1). It copies
>> files over http and keeps track of how to remove them, once installed.
>> Once she adds support for mirrors it will have more or less fulfilled our
>> wishlist of features.
>>
>> I don't see any reason to keep putting more and more alien software
>> into the distribution.
>
> Avoiding replica is nice, but I still would prefer no package
> management at all, and just including all useful stuff directly in the
> distribution.
>
> uriel

Before long, we'll need to switch from install CD to install DVD.

-sl