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

[Kevin Sindhu <kevin@tgivan.com>]

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.

How would you determine what is base and should be deleted and what is
not? You brought out the point of a MTA. How about replacing /bin/sh
with bash or apache with roxen...blah..blah...

Are you thinking of of a ports system for base src? Ummm..not a
terribly good proposal IMHO.

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