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OpenBSD 6.6
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Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#82Just a reminder: you still have to read the preupgrade stuff before and do the manual file deletion stuff afterwards even if you do sysupgrade. Most will need to do the pkg_add -u after all that. Here is the link (I always have to look for it):
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#83Thanks to all the OpenBSD developers and supporters for making another amazing release!
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#84If you support OpenBSD in spirit and love what they do, consider making a donation to help the developers out. Most devs work for free and every little bit helps :)
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
for one of Theo's recent hints see: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156932725121978&w=2
Why ruin it for the majority because a few doesn't known what they are doing? I know the argument is that everyone has the disk space these days, but I still don't like to install the entire X window system, compilers etc. for a small embedded system. What's next, force install of Libreoffice and Firefox because a few desktop users can't use the package manager?
The thing I realized about OpenBSD is it’s made by and for the developers. They are going to do what works for them and fits their priorities. Not what works for the widest possible audience.
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#86Now that they have the amdgpu driver in, it's time to run this on my Ryzen box.
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#87Just a reminder: you still have to read the preupgrade stuff before and do the manual file deletion stuff afterwards even if you do sysupgrade. Most will need to do the pkg_add -u after all that. Here is the link (I always have to look for it): * https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade66.html
There is 'sysclean' in packages, which make that step easier.
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose you could just keep posting this until they follow through with their idea of having only one set to prevent people like you from complaining about this non issue. Or do you think being passive aggressive on hacker news is going to change their collective, long held stance on this issue?
No, what will happen is that sooner rather than later “people like you” will kill my casual interest in this stuff with personal attacks.
fyi portage has INSTALL_MASK: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd#systemd_...
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why ruin it for the majority because a few doesn't known what they are doing? I know the argument is that everyone has the disk space these days, but I still don't like to install the entire X window system, compilers etc. for a small embedded system. What's next, force install of Libreoffice and Firefox because a few desktop users can't use the package manager?
The thing I realized about OpenBSD is it’s made by and for the developers. They are going to do what works for them and fits their priorities. Not what works for the widest possible audience.
Yes and I agree with 99% of all the things they do, and appreciate them, but the thing with threating to merge all file sets because the few people non-deliberately choosing the non-default case are tripping over their incorrectly tied shoelaces too much. why not just ignore those few people and not force X window system binaries on thousands of network equipment?
Re: OpenBSD 6.6
#90The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn't have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).
In the 90s disks were smaller and it might have made more sense to exclude compilers or exclude X. I used to not put X on headless machines. But today disk space is big and cheap.
Why would they merge X before the text games?
I hope they're real complaints and not i.e. we need install menu changed from "install xserver [x]" to "how u liek the xserver? now[ ] never[ ] now with extra firefox, please[x]"