On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:19 AM Dawid Czeluśniak <czelusniakda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi OpenBSD community, > > First of all, thank you for 6.7 release. > > I am a huge fan of minimal and custom installations > as I mostly use OpenBSD to host simple HTTP servers. ... > I would like to get your opinion on that.
>From what I've seen, those goals are not compatible with OpenBSD, as in: You're just making it harder for you and anyone trying to help debugging something if you change the default installation. I've seen some wishes about even getting rid of the whole "sets" thing and just install everything. I tend to agree and would welcome such a move, because these days we're talking about such a tiny amount of space in comparison. Even if you're in a situation where you want to host thousands of virtual OpenBSD machines and then maybe get some sort of gain from removing those 50 MB, well, just use a CoW filesystem and clone the same base install. What I love with OpenBSD is that everything is just there to be used, there aren't 20 different filesystems, 20 different scripting languages, 20 different web servers. I don't have to fiddle with everything, it just works. There's the file system, perl, httpd, etc, and they are well designed. Why would I want multiple different perls when it is already so mature?
