From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 20:50: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E518152A0 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 634631C3C; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56893382B; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:53:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Jaakko Salomaa , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: <37ECF0F4.2A30E31B@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > 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. I need to check into this 'loser' thing, it sounds nice. I'd rather see pkg_add's functionality extended, then another program. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message