Re: a complete system

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Wed, 21 May 2003 10:56:47 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"clemens fischer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] (Paul Jarc):
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Well, I doubt I'll try to solve any such existing orthogonality
problems.  But I'm trying to avoid introducing any new ones.


paul