Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:22:15 -0700 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020714042237.GD931@lizzy.catnook.com> In-Reply-To: <20020713011750.GA755@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <p05111745b94e9452f3b3@[128.113.24.47]> <p05111700b953ed16c118@[128.113.24.47]> <p05111701b953f38542f8@[128.113.24.47]> <20020712121427.GD3678@lummux.tchpc.tcd.ie> <20020712144854.GA756@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020713054141.A26277@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20020713011750.GA755@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:17:50AM +0200, Thomas Seck wrote:
> A tool like portupgrade should not exist (and it should not have been
> written in Ruby - yet another dependency to track).
Indeed. We should try hard to keep powerful, easy to use, general-purpose,
high-level scripting languages out of the base system. After all, we have C/
awk/sed/sh etc., and anything that can be done with those scripting languages
can also be done with these traditional tools.
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