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- From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
- Message-ID: <SOWA.93Jan22102901@amdew.llnl.gov>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:29:01 GMT
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- In-reply-to: Alex Raftis's message of 20 Jan 93 22:28:52 GMT
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- >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Raftis <alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu> writes:
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- Alex> There's perhaps one problem with this idea. Many of us post packages to sonata
- Alex> in order to make installing them easier for new users.
-
- One person's opinion: I hate packages for freeware/shareware. I end up
- looking inside the .pkg directory and unpacking the .tar.Z directly with
- Opener.app. I like to see what's inside before I install. The idea of a
- new user simply double-clicking to install a .pkg obtained from the net
- is a little scary to me. I do some risky things along those lines, but
- at least I'm aware of the potential consequences.
-
- And those receipts always go to /NextLibrary/... Baaaad! They should go
- to ?localLibrary or ~/Library, depending on where the installation takes
- place.
-
- p.s. Alex - GW is great!
- --
- erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
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