From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 13:22:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 13:22:23 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (HURLAME.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9A837B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from magus@localhost) by hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBALMKR23422; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:22:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from magus) Sender: magus@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu To: "David O'Brien" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> <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> <20001210113020.B80274@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Nat Lanza Date: 10 Dec 2000 16:22:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:30:20 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" 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