Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install

I think such a tool should /not/ be a port, since I expect it would include a=
 package browser in it. I think it's something that could really help new us=
ers get used to FreeBSD without having to trawl through man pages right at t=
he start.

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Bruce Cran

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On 27 Dec 2011, at 05:05, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 12/26/2011 20:29, Xin LI wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> The story so far ...
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>>> sysinstall was removed from HEAD in October. I (and others) objected on
>>> the basis that at this time there is no replacement for the post-install=

>>> configuration role that sysinstall played. More sysinstall components
>>> were then removed. Then the old version of libdialog (which sysinstall
>>> used) was removed. Thus at this point it's not possible to easily
>>> restore sysinstall.
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>>> So my question is, how much do you care? Is lack of that functionality
>>> in HEAD something that we care about?
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>> Perhaps make it a port instead?  I personally don't use sysinstall for
>> post-install tasks at all, but it won't hurt to have such
>> functionality.
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> You're not the first person to suggest that, but I don't see how it's
> actually responsive to the problem. This issue only affects HEAD, so a
> port would not be generally useful. It would also be an enormous amount
> of work to make it into a port. It would be much easier to revert the
> necessary changes to bring back the old libdialog and sysinstall itself.
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