From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 25 14: 6:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C48D14D11 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id HAA13290; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:06:23 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19990626070618.17353@welearn.com.au> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:06:18 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Maury Markowitz Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group? References: <199906251719.NAA23009@OAAI.COM> <199906252058.QAA23295@OAAI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199906252058.QAA23295@OAAI.COM>; from Maury Markowitz on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 05:04:07PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote: > Nevertheless dpkg is cool, so maybe you can tell me > if this is as cool? > > Basically dpkg has a complete dependancy tree, so you can say that > in order to use xxx, you also need at least version yyy of zzz. > This can continue at any level in the OS. If you do have something > out of date, I believe it can actually go out on the net and get the > pkg needed to update zzz, and then install it, and then continue to > install your original pkg. Sounds like it does a lot of what FreeBSD does. > Me too now that I think of it! I wanted a nice editor (don't say > vi, please) so the boss showed me the package system on our FreeBSD > box, and we had pico (inside pine) installed in a few seconds. It > was nice, although on the Apple side of things I'd much prefer a > Cocoa GUI (as opposed to char graphics), and I'd be happy to write > that part myself. Have I got a deal for you! Install nedit, and you'll be in heaven. If you read no docs you'll be impressed. If you read the docs and use all its features you'll be staggered. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message