From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 4 15:39:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18151 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18120 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19955 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:27:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (jreynold@hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.7.6/8.7.3paulmail) with ESMTP id PAA139096 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:27:06 -0700 Received: by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.8.6/) id SAA17313; Mon, 4 May 1998 18:26:46 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:26:45 -0700 (MST) To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: linux world contemplate packages ... X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13646.16397.40516.303293@hip186.ch.intel.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just saw this on slashdot.org: http://slashdot.org/articles/9804041623214.shtml they are debating the various package formats amongst all the different "distributions of linux" ... yet another thing I like about FreeBSD--the simple packages. What? Your system doesn't have something it needs, wait a sec, I'll go fetch(1) it ... blah blah blah ... It's worth a read to see whats going on over there. Perhaps we can pick up some ideas for filling the gaps in our own package implementation (I don't really know what they might be as I see no problems as an "end user" but ...) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds C-TEAM CLE - Central Design Services | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message