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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
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- Organization: York University
- References: <1992Dec31.044649.2227@cseg03.uark.edu> <1992Dec31.053257.7432@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:18:21 GMT
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- tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie) writes:
-
- >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???
-
- I've used the -remove optoin too...on tcpip...bad move :( It
- wiped out the mount/umount commands too :(
-
- >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?]).
-
- Wait!! We are in Unix here...not MS-DOS. Why would anyone,
- considering that everyone who is using the extfs says that they haven't
- had any problems, use a minix file system with the stupid MS-DOS
- limitations?? If you want those kinds of limitations, why not get
- FSUUCP and stick to DOS? I'm quite confused :(
-
- Marc
-