Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:25:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> Cc: rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org, dhesi@rahul.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!?) Message-ID: <20000504152518.C19808@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200005020949.CAA18177@earthlink.net>; from bduk@earthlink.net on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:49:39AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005011526360.6783-100000@manatee.mammalia.org> <200005020949.CAA18177@earthlink.net>
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Hi, > Yeah! Or even *BETTER*, it could have a graphical dialog and you > could just press "next" and select a couple of radio buttons or such, > then hit "next" again, and when it's all done, just hit "finish"! > It could be completely SIMPLE! Everything could be stored in a > central "registry" file - all of your preferences for every program, > all of the file locations and such, and the entire system would be > entirely, absolutely, automatically FOOLPROOF! :) That sounds good. Maybe I'll add something like that to portconf. > If that sounds good to you, you've got the wrong operating system. > The reason I'm using FreeBSD is because I can crawl under the hood and > put it together myself. You use it because you _can_, and because you aren't _unable_ to. You still can with the abovementioned system, if it's written correctly. If you _have_ to go under the hood for everything, then you're a masochist. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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