From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: A discipline for packages Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:18:21 GMT
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