Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:06:18 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group? Message-ID: <19990626070618.17353@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199906252058.QAA23295@OAAI.COM>; from Maury Markowitz on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 05:04:07PM -0400 References: <199906251719.NAA23009@OAAI.COM> <199906252058.QAA23295@OAAI.COM>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote:
> Nevertheless dpkg is cool, so maybe you can tell me
> if this is as cool?
>
> Basically dpkg has a complete dependancy tree, so you can say that
> in order to use xxx, you also need at least version yyy of zzz.
> This can continue at any level in the OS. If you do have something
> out of date, I believe it can actually go out on the net and get the
> pkg needed to update zzz, and then install it, and then continue to
> install your original pkg.
Sounds like it does a lot of what FreeBSD does.
> Me too now that I think of it! I wanted a nice editor (don't say
> vi, please) so the boss showed me the package system on our FreeBSD
> box, and we had pico (inside pine) installed in a few seconds. It
> was nice, although on the Apple side of things I'd much prefer a
> Cocoa GUI (as opposed to char graphics), and I'd be happy to write
> that part myself.
Have I got a deal for you! Install nedit, and you'll be in heaven. If
you read no docs you'll be impressed. If you read the docs and use all
its features you'll be staggered.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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