RE: assimilating OpenBSD

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@wcug.wwu.edu>]

> First of all, this *BSD ports base is entirely unnecessary.

This makes sense -- especially because the dpkg/apt system is what really
makes Debian.

> What's needed is a `base' debian-bsd system.  The basic (/bin,
> /sbin) *BSD binaries is what is needed to be packaged the Debian
> way.

I agree that the base system (to be Debian) should be packaged the
Debian-way.

But many of the BSD /bin and /sbin binaries are not truly compatible with
GNU equivalents. So does this mean forcing the Debian packages and Debian
routines (like dpkg pre-installation scripts) to use the BSD tools
instead?

Or should the BSD tools be changed? (But then it wouldn't be the
"audited" BSD tools anymore.)

  Jeremy C. Reed
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