Herein lies the "problem" with FreeDOS. Before the next distribution goes
out, I think the most compatible XMS and EMS driver should be a part of
base (the one that works on majority of hardware and emulators) since we
are going for simplicity. The other versions should included as optional
installs.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The "BASE" is nothing else than a set of packages, they are not
> > different from any other packages (besides the fact that they have been
> > elected as being part of "BASE"). These packages can be removed,
> > installed and updated at will. That's the whole point of having packages.
> >
> > For instance, "BASE" contains 4 different XMS managers. Why would I want
> > to keep them all on my disk, if I only need the one that works for me?
> >
> > Mateusz
>
> I don’t know what will be in the BASE for 1.2’s release.
>
> It’s just my opinion. You of course are correct about the BASE just being
> a set
> of packages. But in practice, I would have to disagree a little. It is
> that BASE that
> defines that version. If, you start adding and removing things from the
> BASE
> you no longer have that version of FreeDOS. You would have your own version
> that is BASE’d on a version of FreeDOS. :)
>
>
> >
> > On 11/09/2015 18:40, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 11/09/2015 16:39, Jim Hall wrote:
> >>>> (...) then use FDNPKG or
> >>>> UNZIP afterwards to install the other packages that you want.
> >>>
> >>> To avoid confusion, I will add that using UNZIP is not a one-to-one
> >>> alternative to FDNPKG. I strongly discourage using UNZIP to install
> >>> packages - such packages won't be removable by FDNPKG afterwards, and
> >>> the files might get unziped in wild (ie. totally unexpected) places.
> >>> FDNPKG does more than just unpacking files.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don’t know if you could do use FDNPGK to do an install of packages,
> then
> >> us zip to wrap up what is installed.
> >>
> >> However, that being said. The BASE is the BASE and should not be removed
> >> by a package manager. It should always be there. :)
> >>
> >> For a full install, the extra stuff may need to support removal using a
> package
> >> mananager.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Mateusz
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
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