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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:29:45 GMT
- Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9301011629.50@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec31.053257.7432@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <marcf.725786301@yorku.ca> <C063xA.81M@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- In article <C063xA.81M@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
- >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?
-
- A friend of mine just switched from extfs back to the minix fs, since
- he was having directories mysteriously disappear.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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