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- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.201620.26986@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:16:20 GMT
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- pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
- >SLS already allows easy uninstall (not that anyone uses it)
- >via "sysinstall -remove pkg".
-
- peter...don't take it out...I use it a lot !!!!!
-
- >Symbolic links turn out to be a system admins nightmare, and I am thinking
- >seriously about clensing SLS of all such, except for directories.
- >While hardware is cheap, slowing it down makes no sense.
-
- there are a number of packages (smail3.1.28 to name one) that use several
- symbolic links. There are other packages (nn6.4.18 to name another) that
- hard-link. I'm sure they both have their reasons...I'd recommend not messing
- with how the authors of a piece of software make it do its magic.
-
- now if you can figure out how to have a package ask a few questions and
- 'do good' as part of the installation process, I'm all ears...there are
- some packages that need to know things in order to be plug-n-play in a
- binary-only distribution like SLS>
-
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