From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 17: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D8114E2F; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA27213; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:15:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:15:31 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: John Baldwin Cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@freebsd.org, Rajappa Iyer Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <19990925221530.A26789@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990925154338.A78022@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <199909251632.MAA57533@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909251632.MAA57533@server.baldwin.cx>; from John Baldwin on Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:32:16PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:32:16PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Re-read the first para of his message: > > -> I completely agree!! Debian's package manager is one of the most > -> infuriatingly buggy piece of software that I've ever used. > > He's complaining about Debian's stuff, not the Ports Collection. :) Ah, oops. My humble apologies to Rajappa. As penance, I'm about to work my way through the 76 messages in -doc that need my attention, roughly half of which probably have PRs attached. . . N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message