The beastie boot menu.

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:25:09AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>
> > lying around after an installworld.  People have posted patches
> > on FreeBSD lists to register parts of the world in the pkg database,
> > but there's no chance of it becoming mainstream.
>
> On the contrary, some of us have been asking for this for years, but I
> haven't seen anyone come up with a useful proof of concept.  Where are
> these patches?

Colin Percival's patches:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023804.html

Ruslan Ermilov talks about plans for a "make uninstall target":
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023961.html

Read the whole thread though, and also the "Pkg-based base system" thread
the same month, for a sample of reactions.

Rahul