From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 02:13:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA27600 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:13:33 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA27592 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:13:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA21688; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:13:18 -0700 To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with packages, and general third party software. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Sep 1995 13:54:21 PDT." <199509252054.NAA21624@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:13:17 -0700 Message-ID: <21685.812106797@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > One problem with installing things from packages is you don't get any > convenient pointer to how to configure them. For example, if I hadn't > already installed amanda on our system, I'd have no idea what to put > in /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services. Looking through what the package > installs there's really not enough to install it. I think that packages have to come with smarter installation scripts is all. I'd originally envisioned things that way, but it appears that very few people really use the install scripts for more than whapping perms and asking simplistic questions. Jordan