From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: A discipline for packages Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:16:20 GMT
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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