[openbeos] Re: unix software without tears
- From: Joshua Austin <computrius@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
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 D�rfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Jonas Sundstr�m" <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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