From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 9 18:38:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28445 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28436 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:38:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au (spectrum [129.127.36.1]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id NAA18808; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:07:44 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/26Jun95-0330PM) id AA09831; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:07:42 +1030 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:07:40 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Nate Williams Cc: Steve Kargl , Dan Nelson , rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname In-Reply-To: <199811092016.NAA06221@mt.sri.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > Ahh, but what happens when I have to run the same applications in the > same shell? Do I have to modify my environment everytime I run a > different application? Do I have to remember which 'emulated OS' the > application runs? That's where the proposed "commercial ports" category would come in. Someone could provide wrappers for installation, executing, etc, which handle all the messy work of setting environment variables and so forth to get the thing to run, for things which require a 'tweaked' emulation environment. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message