Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:24:05 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca Cc: Antoine.Beaupre@lmc.ericsson.se, alex@big.endian.de, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, richy@apple.com, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, will@physics.purdue.edu Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Message-ID: <20010620092405C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <3B30CB02.2000700@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <3B30B1E4.80909@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010620084827V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B30CB02.2000700@lmc.ericsson.se>
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From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:10:42 -0400 > Of course. But what's the alternative here? You talked about offering > the user to still use pkg_add. Isn't that worse? Wouldn't that clobber > the existing libh installs? I think the "alternative" is to make a clean switch and simply have admins continue to use pkg_add and all those foo.tgz packages right up until the point that some "new package collection", and I'm sure there will be people trying to create those, has enough of what they want in it to jump across the divide. Having transition aids is nice, but sometimes the best thing you can do is also not pretend that such transition is painless and have people instead defer it until such time as it becomes a full and complete replacement for whatever they're using. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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