On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > In message > <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB+fO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mla8jp6z...@mail.gmail.com> > , Zhihao Yuan writes: > >>Well, let's make it more straightforward. I hope people can agree with >>this: a default, officially supported modern desktop environment is >>essential to FreeBSD. > > No, it is not. > > It would certainly be nice to have as an option, but I would hate > to have to deal with it, when I squeeze FreeBSD into embedded systems > which have neither graphics outputs nor keyboard or mouse inputs.
"Default" does not mean you "have to" install it. Default means when you are looking for a DE, bsdinstall, handbook, official site, all of them answers "*DE". > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ___________________________________________________ 4BSD -- http://4bsd.biz/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
