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- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.211313.25678@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <725686556snx@crynwr.com> <marcf.725692346@yorku.ca>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:13:13 GMT
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- marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
-
- >nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
-
- >>What I would rather see is a subdirectory per package. For example,
- >>/package/sendmail (and the corresponding subdirectories lib, src, cf,
- >>man.1, man.5, man.8, bin, etc).
-
- that's how I have things set up for news/mail on the sites I run at work
- and it's WONDERFUL. If you want to nuke a package, you delete the tree.
- Nice and simple.
-
- (I add /usr/local/bin and /usr/man/* links so people can find things.
- That makes it a little cluttered, but it's simple to look at /usr/local/bin
- and figure out what came with that package).
-
- > Geez...that would make one messy file system...everything
- >symlinked to everything else.
-
- no it wouldn't.
-
- > Most Unix Operating Systems I've used have both an install
- >and an uninstall command that does the same as rm -r would do
- >to a /package/name directory
-
- no they don't. The only one I've ever found is Ultrix...and that one
- gets wierd if you have to 'hack' an install due to the inadequacies
- of their installation software.
-
-
- > I don't see a benefit to this at all. On top of the inefficiency
- >of it all...you would be wasting a hell of a lot of i-nodes doing this
- >as well (among probably a hundred other things)
-
- so what...hardware is cheap.
-
- when o/s people start realizing that and taking advantage of things to
- reorganize the setups to reduce the REAL pain in system administration
- (ie...care and feeding of the mess you have once it's installed), it'll
- be a big gain.
-
-
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