From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 29 6:22:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [209.201.74.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB06414CE9 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4E285428D; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:22:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 384D79C7C; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:22:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:22:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Chris Costello Cc: Nate Williams , Wes Peters , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jaakko Salomaa , "Daniel C. Sobral" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: <19990925231532.F76486@holly.calldei.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: :On Fri, Sep 24, 1999, Nate Williams wrote: :> Unfortunately, as with all 'slick' products we've talked about, it still :> requires a working X setup in order to run. You could do one as a CUI, :> but doing it in Java would be just as hard as anything else at this :> point. :( : : There's nothing keeping it from being a port or being an :optional part of a distribution that can be installed if X is :installed (emphasis on ``optional''). : : We've got what we need behind-the-scenes, now we need to put a :good show on stage. Let's show Linux what package management is :all about. :) I know I'm not the only Irix admin on this list. If you really want to see a tight clean package management system, with CLI and GUI interfaces, look at inst/swmgr in Irix. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message