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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 8 Jan 1997 11:53:19 GMT
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cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote:

> I do think, however, there is a place in the Unix world for very
> easy-to-install, easy-to-run systems that concentrate on having
> good install procedures and good binary packages, even at the
> expense of being painful for sophisticated Unix hackers to use.

It doesn't _need_ to be painful, both aims are not antagonistic.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j