From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 12 14:35:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.campbell-mithun.com (Mercury.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1044C37B541 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 14:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from marlowe (Marlowe.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.184]) by mercury.campbell-mithun.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA20241; Fri, 12 May 2000 16:34:20 -0500 Message-ID: <003c01bfbc59$fe61b270$b8209fc0@marlowe> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: "Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group" , "Patrick Seal" , References: <200005122113.OAA63283@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Subject: Re: ucd-snmp Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:35:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Schubert" | In message <20000512170354.A31801@hyperhost.net>, Patrick Seal writes: | > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 01:44:57PM -0700i, Chad R. Larson wrote: | > > I think they're pointing out the difference between "pkg_delete", a | > > binary part of the system, and "pkg_remove", a perl script in ports. | > | > Whoops! Anyway, looking at the source code, what's so great about it? Why | > should anyone use it? | | Let's take removing Samba as an example: | [example of how much better pkg_remove is trimmed] This begs the question: If it does the job so much better than pkg_delete, why hasn't its functionality been incorporated into pkg_delete? I think the next big step for the open/free/source-available software movement is to run C programming boot camps so guys like me who hack around in perl but not C can get turned into effective contributers in a fortnight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message