Matthias Buelow said:

>I thought NetBSD-current was about to be syspkg'd anyways?  Then the 
>problem won't show up -- don't like sendmail, or the notoriously ancient 
>postfix version that NetBSD ships with?  Just give it the boot and 
>install something else.  If that isn't feasible somehow for the near 
>future, I'd rather have no mailer daemon installed by default at all 
>than sendmail, or some old postfix, where I have to jump thru loops to 
>properly replace it with a newer version. Packages solve all and 
>everything here.  I'd prefer a really small base system, with everything 
>else in packages.  Not a distribution that looks like it was made for a 
>central minicomputer university installation and intended to be 
>installed from reel tapes (and includes all and everything on that tape 
>because of the absence of a packaging mechanism.)

NetBSD takes up less that 150 megs of space on NetBSD/sparc 1.6. When you
syspkg everything, individual binaries won't be able to be replaced, unless
each binary and file is a separate. Solaris 8, for instance, has around 600
packages. Some of these packages depend on others. Sun, with 10+ years
experience, hasn't got the whole dependency chain right yet.

My -current system uses up 15 megs just keeping track of what I have in
/usr/pkg.
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