From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 23:31:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26881 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26836 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06212; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:31:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd006189; Wed Apr 15 23:31:00 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA13583; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:30:54 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804160630.XAA13583@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ?) To: Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 06:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804152224.IAA03296@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> from "Peter Jeremy" at Apr 16, 98 08:24:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:30:15 +0200 (CEST), Marino Ladavac wrote: > >I could take a look at it if you don't mind SystemV packaging style. > Some disadvantages of the SysV package style (or at least Sun's > implementation thereof): [ ... ] An advantage: It's required for IBCS2 compatability and for Solaris and UnixWare commercial shrink-wrapped application compatability. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message