On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > The Debian package maintainer insures that upgrading mySQL from a > prior version goes smoothly. > > The Debian package maintainer insures that replacing mySQL with a > package of equivalent functionality goes smoothly. > > The Debian package maintainer insures that completely removing the > mySQL package goes smoothly.
What do you think the port maintainer does? > Just try to upgrade sendmail, or horrors of horrors, replace it > with exim, on your BSD box. Note - replace means remove it > _completely_, then install a replacement like exim. > > Yes, sendmail is part of the BSD base system. You have to hack > the rc scripts to remove it. You have to take special care that > all of your carefully crafted configuration files are saved > somewhere _before_ you dare upgrade it on a BSD system. Well, sendmail is in the base OS, yes. So you'll have to add sendmail_enable="NO" to rc.conf or whatnot, not a big hack. And for deleting it, I'm not sure where the baggage is besides the actual binary. > Strange, you brag about the freedom of the BSD license, but when > someone proposes to play with your little toy with its neon `play > with me tag', you immediately begin to scream that your toy is > about to be violated by a rapist! I'm not too sure what you are talking about. Wanting to prevent a fork at any level is logical. Strangely enough, if you were talking about forking FreeBSD into a commerical product, I probably wouldn't care. But when you are willing to work along the same lines, but just in a different direction, you want to know what cna be done to readjust the attitude so that we are all working on one thing, instead of splitting it. -Dan
