Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:30:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: Dan Benjamin <dpb@yeti.hqs.crc.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <25683.894004200@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:10:19 PDT." <354912EB.B0194836@ibm.net>
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> of variants. What I _want_ is something like apsfilter that doesn't > choke if a dependency is not there. For instance, if you don't have a > postscript-ready printer, it says, "I hope you've installed > ghostscript..." Why doesn't it go out and fetch ghostscript, like our > make trees in the rest of the ports tree? Likewise, we need to make a I guess nobody paid much attention to my little "install-stubs" target proposal for /usr/ports, experimental and proof-of-conceptish though they were. :) It's one way of dealing with the problem and meant more as a gedanken experiment than anything else - I'd like folks to start really thinking seriously about application transparancy and what it takes to get there. :) ftp://time.cdrom.com/pub/port-stub.shar Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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