[openbeos] Re: Why I am against distributions.

Yeh when I meant better ... I was referring to something more like our
current package system ie. Jam and not Makefiles which the ports collection
uses.

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Sikosis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philipp Reichmuth" <mailinglistenprozessor@xxxxxxx>
To: "Elver Loho" <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:00 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Why I am against distributions.


> EL> The pkg format is nice. Maybe it would be a good thing to build
> EL> something on it? OpenBeOS Package Manager for example. Or even
> EL> OpenPackage Format. (opk)
>
> Something makes me want to scream "Not another package format!!!!"
>
> >>BSD has ports though ...
> >>We just need something like that, except better and something thats a
> >>GUI.
>
> What exactly is meant by "better"? What features does it lack?
>
> Stick a GUI in front of BSD's (BSD-licensed <g>) ports/packages system
> and you've got a brilliant package manager. The only problem I see is how
> to integrate it with Jam, but that should be possible.
>
> Philipp
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