Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:57:40 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: Jaakko Salomaa <jsalomaa@saunalahti.fi>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <37ECF0F4.2A30E31B@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241440450.71250-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and > some enviromental variables. > > I don't see the huge benefit. That's because you are not a loser. Losers want plug-and-play. This pkg_get is plug and play, pkg_add isn't. It doesn't, for instance, automatically retrives a list of the packages available fromt he net and show them to you. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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