Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 03:11:03 +0100 (CET) From: Cyrille Lefevre <root@gits.dyndns.org> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Ronald Joe Record <rr@sco.com>, op-tech@openpackages.org Subject: Re: pkgtools Message-ID: <200103020211.f222B4Z70068@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3A9EEF42.2743EE8F@pitt.edu> "from Pedro F. Giffuni at Mar 1, 2001 07:54:26 pm"
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Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > I think this was discussed long ago, my posting with the same URL must > be somewhere in the archives. for instance, I got the URL from Terry Lambert in the (big) Moving Things thread some days ago. > Back then the license was not considered a show stopper, but no one > got to port it because the functionality of those tools is very > similar to the ones already in FreeBSD. I would like to see this similar but not so powerfull. there is no file conflict checking, no auditing tool, file size/owner/group/permission/etc. aren't recorded anywhere, and more. and if we want to go in a modularized base system, we need something enough powerfull to handle those cases. > simply because they are sort of a standard for UNIX and we don't claim > to be non-UNIX. of course, we are, aren't we ? > In those days Ronald Record was also trying to free a bigger set of > C++ tools. I have used the installer on SCO's Unixware and it's very > nice, but that's IMHO. Packaging tools can be the root of another > religious war. what a pity if that happen (again?). we have to take the best from other systems, even SYSV and don't denigrate such tools because it came from SVR4 (or whatever). > Unfortunately the 86open effort died miserably with a "Linux seems > quite popular" comment after a long silence. RIP CC openpackages Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@poboxes.com UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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