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- From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.053257.7432@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:32:57 GMT
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- David W. Summers (dws@cseg03.uark.edu) wrote:
- >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,
-
- >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.
-
- I can do this too... with the SLS sysinstall. List packages installed:
- 'ls /install/installed'. I can remove packages (yes Peter, I for one have
- used the -remove option to sysinstall). So what is the problem?
- No spiffy user interface perhaps???
-
- IMHO, the only thing lacking in the SLS sysinstall is some way of getting
- descriptions of the packages (like the Ultrix setld(8) command although this
- too is by no means perfect... but that's another story). Also, better
- "version control" would be nice, so if a package (or subset which is probably
- a better term) was changed then the name (or something) changed (e.g.
- man2-000 man2-001 although this is a problem with the stupid MS-DOS
- limitations [on packages like dviljsrc or ghostscr what do you do?]).
- --
- -Tim MacKenzie (tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au)
-