From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 30 23:30:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08133 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08112 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25690; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: dwilde1@ibm.net cc: Dan Benjamin , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:10:19 PDT." <354912EB.B0194836@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:30:00 -0700 Message-ID: <25683.894004200@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > of variants. What I _want_ is something like apsfilter that doesn't > choke if a dependency is not there. For instance, if you don't have a > postscript-ready printer, it says, "I hope you've installed > ghostscript..." Why doesn't it go out and fetch ghostscript, like our > make trees in the rest of the ports tree? Likewise, we need to make a I guess nobody paid much attention to my little "install-stubs" target proposal for /usr/ports, experimental and proof-of-conceptish though they were. :) It's one way of dealing with the problem and meant more as a gedanken experiment than anything else - I'd like folks to start really thinking seriously about application transparancy and what it takes to get there. :) ftp://time.cdrom.com/pub/port-stub.shar Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message