From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 21 17:16:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19471 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19373 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA22410; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:15:19 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA02733; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:12:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Stuart Henderson cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hacking Furiously for the Desktop Contest In-Reply-To: <35B4CF8E.DA61C891@internationalschool.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Stuart Henderson wrote: >- other ports/pkgs could gradually be converted over, coupled with an >X-based package installer it would give a more user-friendly mechanism >for downloading and installing applications than Microsoft has. Noooooooo!!!!!!!!! Leave my ports collection alone. Xified ports... Baaah! I have the technology to develop nuclear weapons and I am not afraid to use it in defense of the ports collection. This is as zealous as I get. '$ make;make install' is too easy. A Tcl/Tk front end to ports might be ok if you absolutely must click a button, but only if I never see it. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message