On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:36:27 -0500, Eric Radman <theman@eradman.com> wrote:

> 
> Is there any chance of a consensus on this idea: adding another set to
> NetBSD's base distribution called plus.tgz or util.tgz.
> 
> There are a number of packages that are already part of the other *BSD
> base distributions that I install from pkgsrc on every NetBSD box I set
> up or upgrade, including:
> 
> package ~size  already in              reason
> ------- -----  ----------------------  ---------------------------------
> sudo    113K   OpenBSD                 Better than everyone using su(1)
> userppp 248K   OpenBSD & FreeBSD       Awesome ppp/pppoe
> tcsh    331K   FreeBSD & DragonflyBSD  Useful alternative to csh(1)
> lynx    1.8M   OpenBSD                 Useful for finding more info
> perl    11M    OpenBSD                 Used for everything
> 
> Is this a good idea?
> 
I think that that's the wrong architectural direction -- I'd rather move
more pieces of the system to pkgsrc, and have the install procedure
contain scripts to do pkg_add of some of them, at user request. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb