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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!crynwr!nelson
- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: A discipline for packages
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725769937snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <725686556snx@crynwr.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:45:37 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
- Lines: 11
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- In article <725686556snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com writes:
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- You know something I've always hated about Unix (and people are
- starting to hate about Windows)?
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- When you install a package, it inserts itself inextricably into
- various places in your system.
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- Apparently this is not a problem with SLS. Its install routine keeps
- track of which files went where and lets you delete them in one step.
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- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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