From: | Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp_o2@xxxxx> |
Date: | Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:53:14 +0200 |
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:28:16 +0100 "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:07:50 +0200 > Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp_o2@o2.pl> wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:43:26 +0100 > > Alex Hornung <ahornung@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 24/09/10 13:37, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: > > > > I know, and I would expect such answer. No offense please, but > > > > for how long yet such attitude will prevail in Unix community? > > > > It lingers from 80s of the last... Cenury of the last > > > > Millennium. ;-) > > > Sorry, but I simply fail to see why we need 'mc' and 'lynx' in > > > base. If someone can't use the standard unix commands, he should > > > possibly learn before using a unix system. > > > > The same pervasive attitude... You failed but I did not fail, the > > more so I explained in plain English (I hope) why the toots might > > be helpful. > > > > I know standard unix commands I program in shell. Does it mean that > > I should stick to them for full 50 years of my life? Pathetic... > > Not at all - just because these tools are not in the base > system does not mean they're not easily available just install them > with pkg_radd or pkgin or build them yourself > (cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/mc; bmake install clean clean-depends). Let me show you a real example, I did stuck with no network during installation. DF is new to me. Unix commands like dhclient are not available though paths so I had to find it. The DF tree is different from other systems. Using MC I get broader picture of system dir layout and their contents - I get two panes with a lot of information - and I am not coerced to wander thru subdirectories typing cd and ls like idiot (not as bad as I would be getting acquainted with DF bowels but MC is more convenient). > > Of course, I am not so stupid to bang my head onto concrete wall of > > chastity of Unix diehard users. > > Nobody is suggesting that these tools aren't useful - just > that there's no compelling reason to put them in the base system when > they can be so easily added from pkgsrc where they are well > maintained without distracting the DragonFly developers from > developing DragonFly. If there is no problem for me installing it via pkgsrc the more so there wouldn't be a problem for developers. If I got the network working I wouldn't noticed how badly I miss my MC. ;-) > > It would be nice and convenient for ***ME*** if the DFBSD used the > > idea of system software chunks aka sets conjured up by NetBSD and > > OpenBSD teams. Why not creat one more set of useful tools with > > Lynx, MC, and other apps? CD size is big and modern networks > > provide fast downloads. > > DragonFly does support building ISOs with a configurable set > of packages pre-installed. Installing packages is easy once the base > system is installed so there's no particular reason to add to the > base. I didn't say about packages but about sets: http://ftp.bytemine.net/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/amd64/ What about DF basic system software divided into sets similar to sets found in OpenBSD? > > "Sorry, but I simply did not fail to see that" DFBSD system might > > gain having such tools distibuted on its ISO and be the leader on > > the BSD trek of all BSD flavors. For all those like me who like to > > use mc or lynx. We have the right to breath too, haven't we? > > The problem here is that it's an endless cycle which > culminates in an install that needs a blu-ray disc and comes with > everything under the sun pre-installed. Why everyone sees the issue of extra tools as a point boiled down to extreme end? It is not an argument during such discussion if any. Did I ask for all the blobs lurking on the IT market? Regards -- Przemysław Pawełczyk (P2O2) [pron. Pshemislav Paveltchick] http://pp.blast.pl, pp_o2@o2.pl
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