Hi all,
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Code vandals will make any BSD less attractive to users, who would
less complain, than silently leave, & not stay to later contribute
to the BSD community.
Those who would ignore BSDs' Unix legacy: Better play with free remit Linux.
well put.
I do agree however that if a valid alternative exists in pkgsrc (or even
if the same program can be put there) then it is a fine alternative: I
do not need e.g. a mailer on every laptop... while perhaps I want to run
off documentation on workstation and not my server. It is not that
"everything needs to be in base".
The base system needs to provide the common system that needs to be used
for most tasks, be it a server, a laptop or an old memory and disk
limited workstation.
However if the pkg version of the program is not the same or much
bigger.. then it is not a replacement. Small CLI tool vs. big tool with
X11 and lots of dependencies.
gvim is not a replacement for the system's vi, in other words
Just my 2ยข
Riccardo
