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From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>,
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Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname
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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 


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