On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:34:11AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >
> >It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD.
> >
> 
> Certainly.  But I think it has to go beyond the installer.  We
> should define an environment that third party applications can
> depend on being available in any installation that claims to
> be FreeBSD.  Without this, you have the same environement that
> Linux does where third party apps are only qualified on distribution
> U and X and have no hope of working on distributions Y and Z.

Agreed.  If it doesn't include the bits in the CVS source repo, modulo
standard knobs available for cutting bits out or frobbing things
around, then it's not FreeBSD but something else based on FreeBSD.

Kris

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