Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:05:28 +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.4.05.9811101504510.6390-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199811100432.VAA09970@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. > > Is there an echo in the room? Isn't this what I initially proposed as a > better alternative to hacking up the uname(1) sources? Oops :) Well, uh.."I agree" :) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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