From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 21:59:35 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 5C3FB14DD2 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 21:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id NAA26038; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:59:18 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37EDA7D1.80233F88@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:57:53 +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: Jaakko Salomaa Cc: Bill Fumerola , 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 Jaakko Salomaa wrote: > > Well, I wouldn't use the word 'loser'. A 'newbie' would be more I meant luser, actually. :-) > politically correct. And what's wrong with it if it's easy to use? That depends on your definition of "easy". I can use pkg_add faster, not having to go through menus, thus I consider it easier. > /stand/sysinstall is, too. It still doesn't give them breast-feeding. > But he was correct, the benefit is the easiness. And really, I don't think > I could have pushed trough such a radical patch to pkg_add, it would have > just met as much resistance, perhaps even more. I haven't posted anything > to the lists before, just read them silently. You might have got me wrong. I approve of your program. It targets the largest existing class of user, and complements nicely our tools (without having to adopt a whole new packaging mechanism, to boot!). Hard core Unix users won't see any benefit of it, though, because they are not what they usually call "lusers". > But look, I mean no harm with this - if it's useless, I'll just make a > port out of it and commit it. You never need to see it again. And if you > think the changes should be made to pkg_add, that's a fine idea. Please do > so. But in my opinion it still could become useful. What features should I > actually add? I already discussed about few changes in privacy with - > well, he won't mind - andrew@ugh.net.au and he made a few pretty good > suggestions. This usage of master_dist_site isn't a dead idea neither. I think your utility is great, and I'll use it if I feel a bit lazy (which is not that uncommon... :). -- 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