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From: hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Date: 20 Aug 1993 09:59:37 +0200
Organization: Nosimals & Co.
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Message-ID: <25209nINN95@flinx.RoBIN.de>
References: <deeken.745789885@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> <1993Aug19.213706.4304@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
>From article <deeken.745789885@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>, by deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken):
>>
>> I hope FreeBSD 1.0 and/or NetBSD 0.9 have the concept of 'software packages'
>> and means to install and deinstall them, at least for 'third party' software
>> like X or TeX.
>I haven't tried TeX yet, but the X for *BSD is real easy to deinstall:
> rm -r /usr/X386
And how do you reverse the changes done by x386install to the rest of your
system (possibly /dev, /etc/ttys, /etc/man.conf) automatically?
(No, I don't consider trying to do this practical. Too complex. ;)
Ok, X was a bad example, because it resides mostly in it's own subtree.
What about a package which installs to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib/<wherever>
and /usr/local/man? Or worse, to /usr/bin, /usr/libexec/uucp and /usr/share/man,
like a new version of UUCP? (Yes, UUCP is part of the base system, but there's
no reason why I couldn't fetch the latest sources for Taylor uucp and install
it myself (done so already). That makes it 'third party'.)
Hannes
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