BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

Antony Mawer fbsd-arch at mawer.org
Mon Aug 28 00:49:04 UTC 2006


On 28/08/2006 10:01 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> On 2006.08.25 23:36:12 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>> In getting this into the base system itself?  Opt-in, default turned 
>>> off,
>>> of course, but maybe as an option in sysinstall to be enabled easily?
>>
>> What is the advantage of having it in the base system compared to
>> ports?
> 
> IMHO, official recognition ... more ppl will hopefully enable/use it if 
> its part of the system itself, vs a "third party add on", which ports 
> tends to denote ...

Not to mention it reduces the barrier to entry. It's a lot easier to 
drop 2 lines in your periodic.conf and be done than to require someone 
to update their ports tree, install the port, and then add the two lines.

The less steps (and thus effort) required, the more participation we 
hope to get...

-Antony


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