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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!not-for-mail From: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 24 Apr 1996 22:03:00 -0700 Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting - http://www.memra.com Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4ln124$3jb@sidhe.memra.com> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4l8o73$i28@news.missouri.edu> <4laudl$q55@news.duke.edu> <4lgq8c$ffc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.memra.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22383 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:849 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3529 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3386 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18198 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47177 In article <4lgq8c$ffc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>, Neil Brendan Clark <nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote: >But compiling is good, as long as you don't *have* to do it! For example, >to compile a program for FreeBSD so that it is optimized for your machine, >Here's what you do; (in this case I'll compile xearth) > > cd /usr/ports/x11/xearth > make install > >And that's it. The files are fetched automatically, the man pages and so on >are all installed in the right places, and even better, if I want to uninstall >it, I just type; > > pkg_delete xearth-1.0 > >How less difficult could it be? How about this. You type in "setup" and receive a list of applications marked INSTALLED or AVAILABLE. You arrow up and donw the list, press SPACEBAR or ENTER (they do the same thing) and a dialog pops up asking if you want to install/deinstall this application. Answer Y or N and it happens, then back to the list. This is more or less how SCO UNIX handles installing and deinstalling packages. Actually, they allow you to pick and choose portions of a package and even individual files. This is useful if fsck zaps an important binary or something or if you just want to make sure that your disk hasn't corrupted it. -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com