Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:35:27 -0500 From: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> To: "Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group" <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, "Patrick Seal" <patseal@hyperhost.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ucd-snmp Message-ID: <003c01bfbc59$fe61b270$b8209fc0@marlowe> References: <200005122113.OAA63283@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Schubert" <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> | In message <20000512170354.A31801@hyperhost.net>, Patrick Seal writes: | > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 01:44:57PM -0700i, Chad R. Larson wrote: | > > I think they're pointing out the difference between "pkg_delete", a | > > binary part of the system, and "pkg_remove", a perl script in ports. | > | > Whoops! Anyway, looking at the source code, what's so great about it? Why | > should anyone use it? | | Let's take removing Samba as an example: | [example of how much better pkg_remove is trimmed] This begs the question: If it does the job so much better than pkg_delete, why hasn't its functionality been incorporated into pkg_delete? I think the next big step for the open/free/source-available software movement is to run C programming boot camps so guys like me who hack around in perl but not C can get turned into effective contributers in a fortnight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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