Excerpts from mail: 8-Jan-95 Re: Packages for NetBSD (Wa.. David
Brownlee@city.ac.u (4103*)

> 	The last thing I want to do is waste the core team's time on non-OS
> 	code, but I think its worth splitting the 'extras' into three
> 	categories.

Try looking at this problem differently.  Instead of bundling all these
extras in with the UN*X OS where they don't belong, simply allow the
user, as part of the OS install process, to add packages.

Thus an install is broken into:

	1.	Establish OS on primary disk (FS, swap et.al.)

	2.	Install UN*X distribution

	3.	Optionally install any additional packages
		(X11, AUIS, your favorite shell, perl)

FTP sites would Value Add the packages that they bundle with a standard
distribution (Linux distributions do this now).

You, for instance, would be a customer of a site that bundled the
`shells' (bash/tcsh) `perl' and X packages with their value added
distribution.

				Andrew