Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:55:45 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <FFFB5387-93BA-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com> References: <20020710033154.GD8625@dan.emsphone.com> <FFFB5387-93BA-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:10:42PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > We've already seen considerable debate over random access capabilities > and being able to get at the "dictionary" portion of a package either by > sticking it at the front or putting it in another file, so I won't go > into that all over again, but I will bring up something that nobody > seems to have touched on yet: Fat packages. Why does this remind me of the pain I had to go through where I had to download a .pkg to my netcom account, and write my own 'thinner' program to strip out the unwanted architecture cruft before actually downloading the new .pkg over a 9600b link to my NeXTSTEP/i386 machine? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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