Re: a complete system

[email protected] (Paul Jarc):

> Well, one of my goals is orthogonality, which means there won't be
> just one answer.  For example, I'm currently using /etc/passwd, spf,
> /fs, and daemontools+svclean to run my systems.  But if you want to
> use just spf, while substituting userdir for /etc/passwd,
> traditional /etc/fstab for /fs, and runit for daemontools+svclean,
> you should be able to do that.  Similarly, you can use spf just for
> individual packages, while keeping your base system vanilla FreeBSD,
> or whatever.

that requires careful factoring of all the components.  freebsd needs
a not-so-large change of the c-lib to substitute userdir for passwd,
but i don't think packagers would like to move from a monolithic c-lib
to one spread over thousands of files/collections that implement each
some basic functionality.

on the other hand, splitting up the c-lib would really mean freedom
for users without loosing the ease of use of packaging systems.

  clemens