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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:53:42 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <318137D6.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4l8o73$i28@news.missouri.edu> <4laudl$q55@news.duke.edu> <4lgq8c$ffc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <4ln124$3jb@sidhe.memra.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22467 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:863 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3552 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3408 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18278 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47292 Michael Dillon wrote: > > How about this. > > You type in "setup" and receive a list of applications marked INSTALLED > or AVAILABLE. You arrow up and donw the list, press SPACEBAR or ENTER > (they do the same thing) and a dialog pops up asking if you want to > install/deinstall this application. Answer Y or N and it happens, then > back to the list. This is sort of where /stand/sysinstall (to be renamed setup in the future - really!) is headed now. There is a fully interactive packages menu which will suck packages off CD, NFS, floppy or FTP servers as you choose. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project