[haiku-development] Re: [HaikuPorts-devs] sed
- From: Bryan Varner <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:35:26 -0500
Note to self, don't reply before drinking morning coffee.
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:33 -0500, Bryan Varner wrote:
> > ATM I really have no clear vision of a setup that sounds "right".
>
> Statically link everything in the system?
>
> Storage is cheap, and if it means I can't break my system by installing
> (or updating) a library in error... then I'm all for it.
>
> I find package management a horrible hack of a solution. IMHO binaries
> you download (or 3rd party software) ought be statically linked so that
> they're self-contained. Yes, it can make them huge. But as a user, then
> I don't have to deal with "do I have the right version?" and package
> management becomes a matter of "delete this." rather than using tools
> that do things I don't understand to fix problems I don't understand.
>
> In the back of my mind everytime I'm using yum, apt, etc. I have this
> voice saying, "Why can't I just download what I need and run it?"
>
> Or am I completely off my rocker and totally off topic?
>
> Regards,
> -Bryan
>
>
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