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

[Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:14:09PM -0600, Richard Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Indeed ! Even the ports collection gets a lot of leverage out of the basic
system. If we were not to depend on most of what's installed, things would
quickly get out of hand (and in fact, every switch in the ports tree should
be carefully thought of... a large number of switches are not necessary
at all).