Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:35:03 +0000 From: Jonathan Perkin <sketchy@netcraft.com> To: libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making the Packages System Better Message-ID: <20001103143503.B94079@netcraft.com>
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Talking about symlinks and stuff [snip] Just to say this has already been done, and I know quite a few people who use it on their linux systems. http://encap.cso.uiuc.edu/ Known as the encap package manager, it uses a userland tool "epkg" to manage the symlinks etc. Quite nifty, but I side with DES in that the symlinks get annoying after a while - basic stuff like viewing file permissions is impractical as you have to follow symlinks first just to get to the file. Debian's /etc/alternatives system is even worse: $ ls -l /usr/bin/vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 27 10:32 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 29 17:06 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/nvi $ ls -l /usr/bin/nvi -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 315248 Mar 26 2000 /usr/bin/nvi 3 commands just to get basic file perms? I can see a *lot* of people hating that very quickly. -- Jonathan Perkin <sketchy@netcraft.com> Voice: +44 (01225) 404422 ech`echo xiun | tr nu oc | sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol System Administrator - Netcraft, Bath, UK - http://www.netcraft.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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