From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 21:42: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4026037B77E for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA39082; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38C739AB.3ACD9E8A@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 21:42:03 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0307 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenny Drobnack Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging system (was: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenny Drobnack wrote: > I have a suggestion. I have a laptop with Debian Linux on it, and I love > the way it does the packaging system. We have command line tools to do all the things you described, and sysinstall is a GUI front end to the existing package system. As for wish lists, the archives are full of them. Patches talk. :) Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message