[openbeos] Re: unix software without tears
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:49:49 -0400
For some reason Mathew's message was base64 encoded. Here it is decoded:
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You can't leave something undocumented. You just can't.
Does pkgsrc use Makefiles like FreeBSD's Ports?
If it does, wouldn't it be easier to rewrite something **alot**
smaller using Jamfiles? Because you wouldn't need support for all the
other platforms and their versions, just Haiku... Unless you want to
use everything in pkgsrc?
On 4/4/06, Joshua Austin <computrius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One option would be to make it a seperate download, or
> put it in, but leave its existence undocumented. That
> way you still get the functionality, but the majority
> of the public doesnt immediatly equate haiku with
> unix.
>
> --- Axel Dorfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "Jonas Sundstrom" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I think we could benefit from using NetBSD's
> > 'pkgsrc'
> > > for unix software management. (and unix software
> > only)
> > > It's unix-centric, of course, but it's far from
> > NetBSD-only.
> >
> > I wouldn't consider it, if it's thought for unix
> > software only; I would
> > always only want one single update mechanism in the
> > system.
> >
> > And what good would it bring?
> >
> > - we have all the tools that should be in the
> > distribution in our
> > source repository.
> > - it's arguably a good thing to keep those up to
> > date.
> > - users should only care about updating those tools
> > when there is a
> > potentially
> > security hole - all other updates should be
> > managed by updating
> > Haiku.
> > - at least I don't see the need to have many other
> > unix tools on Haiku,
> > than
> > those that are already part of Haiku.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Axel.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Thank You
Mathew Schofield
mr.skoe@xxxxxxxxx
On 4/3/06, Mathew Schofield <mr.skoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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