From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) Subject: Re: A discipline for packages Date: 1 Jan 1993 09:05:33 GMT
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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