From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 5 13:55:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE2714E98 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11jrKP-000NWA-00; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:55:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA92486; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:55:24 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:55:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Rainer M Duffner Cc: Vladislav , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] packaging system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Rainer M Duffner wrote: >On Tue 07 Aug, Vladislav wrote: >> Hi, >> I have read that FreeBSD by March of '99 will >> have a demo of a new packaging system that >> should be great Hopefully the FBSD team will have learned from everyone else's mistakes and can also glean the best ideas from tarballs, RPM, and debian packages. I just hope it's well thought out, and doesn't turn into some monstrosity of mangled dependencies and disappearing install files that leave the user trying to sort out a big mess. Of course, the coherence of FreeBSD compared to Linux should be a clear preventive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message