Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:07:40 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811101306280.9655-100000@spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199811092016.NAA06221@mt.sri.com>
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > Ahh, but what happens when I have to run the same applications in the > same shell? Do I have to modify my environment everytime I run a > different application? Do I have to remember which 'emulated OS' the > application runs? That's where the proposed "commercial ports" category would come in. Someone could provide wrappers for installation, executing, etc, which handle all the messy work of setting environment variables and so forth to get the thing to run, for things which require a 'tweaked' emulation environment. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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