From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 7:57:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F6737B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (66-191-112-47.mad.wi.charter.com [66.191.112.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB74E43E09; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6AEtjW11923; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:55:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:55:45 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Jordan K Hubbard Cc: Dan Nelson , Archie Cobbs , Dan Moschuk , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Wes Peters , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20020710033154.GD8625@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:10:42PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > We've already seen considerable debate over random access capabilities > and being able to get at the "dictionary" portion of a package either by > sticking it at the front or putting it in another file, so I won't go > into that all over again, but I will bring up something that nobody > seems to have touched on yet: Fat packages. Why does this remind me of the pain I had to go through where I had to download a .pkg to my netcom account, and write my own 'thinner' program to strip out the unwanted architecture cruft before actually downloading the new .pkg over a 9600b link to my NeXTSTEP/i386 machine? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message