From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 14:44:40 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 DD99D37B406 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d108.dhcp212-198-26.noos.fr [212.198.26.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F8C43E42 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19874 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:44:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3D2CAAC1.5CF66C96@herbelot.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:44:33 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Listening to users [was Re: Package system wishlist] References: <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 [Snip the long arguments over which new format for the packages] there is a interesting post by an ex-user of desktop Linux, which can help when designing the new package system (it will have to be used by mere mortals, not only by the elite posting on -arch) (shamelessly cut&pasted from /.) we still have a long way to go before even computer-aware people (that is, even people formely developping on SGI or Sun machines) can feel at ease installing and using FreeBSD. TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message