The beastie boot menu.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:06:59AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  Both of those people are FreeBSD committers though, so I
don't know why you think there's "no chance of it becoming
mainstream".

Kris
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