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- From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.044649.2227@cseg03.uark.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:46:49 GMT
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- nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
-
- >When you install a package, it inserts itself inextricably into
- >various places in your system.
- >
- >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).
- >
- >-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
- >Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
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-
- This sounds a LOT like what the new SunOS 5 (aka Solars 2.X) does. Maybe
- Linux could do the same? Solaris does it in the /opt directory.
-
- It can add and remove packages (pkgadd, pkgrm) and list the packages installed
- (pkginfo, pkglist(???)) or something like that. Pretty spiffy. That way you
- can always DE-install what you have installed and get a list of the currently
- installed packages.
-
- -David Summers
- (dws@engr.uark.edu)
-
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- David Summers full of tapes, hurtling down the highway."
- dws@engr.uark.edu - Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"
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