Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:14:12 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <98763.969066852@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> of "Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:09:31 CDT." <20000915170931.X40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com>
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> Basic stuff like /bin/cp and other /bin/*, /sbin/* and so forth, with > certain exceptions. All sounds like part of the "base" package myself. > Of course, the only reason why I'd say this is because: wouldn't > "packages" be more difficult to maintain than the source? Nope! In fact, one might expect it to be quite a bit easier. Source upgrades are fraught with manually-navigated rapids of peril. Binary upgrades can contain scripts which at least automate a user's decent into hell instead. > Or am I on crack again? Perhaps it's not that hard at all, and > everything should be packaged. It's not that hard at all, and everything should be packaged. Pass the pipe. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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