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- From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:05:33 GMT
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- marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >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???
-
- What? You don't consider "menu" spiffy?! Maybe you want a Mac? ;-)
-
- >>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 :(
-
- The extfs is still alpha, and isn't quite stable enough for general
- release (at least that's the last I heard; if it's doing better now,
- some kind of announcement would be nice).
- ALSO, I, like many, have to do my transfers through MS-LOSS. I can
- go 2400baud Zmodem through Linux or I can use ftp on a DOS box--and
- the local phone lines have a tendency to screw file transfers badly.
- (Within the next few months, look for a new Linux box on the net:
- Jefferson.law.uoknor.edu--that's me ;-) So, in other words, I can
- spend a few days doing downloads to get files with UNIX filenames
- which may or may not be corrupted, or I can grab a box of disk and
- a 286 portable and download the entire SLS distribution by FTP to
- a DOS box in just over an hour. Which would _you_ choose?
-
- James
-
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