From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 9:47: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131F214D36 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id BAA04960; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:46:47 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37ECF0F4.2A30E31B@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:57:40 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Jaakko Salomaa , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and > some enviromental variables. > > I don't see the huge benefit. That's because you are not a loser. Losers want plug-and-play. This pkg_get is plug and play, pkg_add isn't. It doesn't, for instance, automatically retrives a list of the packages available fromt he net and show them to you. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message