Re: Proposal. Register exchangable programms in basesystem as ports.

["Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com>]

At 12:42 -0600 on 8/27/01, Han wrote:
>
> I would like it if exchangeble programms in the basesystem were
> registered just like a port/package.  Meaning if I don't want to use
> sendmail I can simply remove it with:
> pkg_delete sendmail-x.y
> And install the postfix port for example, which is a completely usable
> alternative to sendmail.


That opens up a huge regression testing nightmare; you would have to test
operation with all combinations of such packages in the base system.  I
don't want to go there.  Even Sun won't support Solaris except under their
default "everything installed" mode.  I'm quite certain OpenBSD developers
have more important things to do with their time as well.

You're probably better off building your own system from source according
to your exact needs.  I've done this for stripped-down firewall boxes --
plus see <http://www.embsd.org/>.  If you need such control for your
special purposes, it's there for the taking.


Richard