Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 19:20:12 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default Message-ID: <26158.894162012@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 18:30:59 PDT." <354BC8D3.41BA890F@ibm.net>
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> Well, then obviously we need to add something. :) What I saw was that 1) > most of the "blah-1.2.3.tar.gz not found" messages were from > /usr/ports/print programs, and I looked at the 'add packages' screen and > 2) didn't see 'print' as a category. Therefore, I jumped to the That's not the ports collection you're looking at, that's the *packages* collection for one thing and they're both very different kettles of fish when discussing this kind of thing. Second, you didn't see print/ on the 2.2.6 CD because it was moved due to space constraints, as the README.TXT file in the root level directory of the CDROM clearly and explicitly states and you just as clearly failed to read! :-) I know that situations like this are hardly ideal and if we had some sort of "package meta-INDEX" system working now and ready to deploy, you can bet that I'd certainly use it to get things like media swapping to work. But we don't right now and so it's REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT that people at least read the included documentation so they know just where and when they're about to leave the marked trails. :-) More user-friendliess desired, to be certain, but it's no substitute for people reading the basic documentation. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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