Date: 10 Dec 2000 16:22:19 -0500 From: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation Message-ID: <uoc1yvgnf90.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:30:20 -0800" References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012091347030.88984-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <200012100904.CAA27546@harmony.village.org> <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org> <200012101557.KAA29588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <14899.43958.622675.847234@guru.mired.org> <uoc66ksnqsk.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> <20001210113020.B80274@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > No, the issue is one of "preciousness". In other words why backup > software that I can just do `pkg_add' to get again? Or if I want to > easily start from scratch and update all my FreeBSD Packages? This is an entirely reasonable argument; I don't tend to group software this way, so I hadn't thought of it like this. This is probably because in my world, we use a somewhat different model for software installation -- CMU is heavily dependent on AFS, and software tends to be installed on local machines out of backed-up AFS volumes through something like depot. So every package has its own little directory tree, and it's all merged together at install time into /usr/local or /usr/contributed or something like that. So we don't differentiate how precious software is by where it's installed -- the directories it's installed _from_ are the key bit, and the destination directories can be wiped and recreated at any time. --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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