On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Joshua Rodman
<[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
>> > * filesystem hierarchies that changes with the phases of the moon -
>> > this situation has improved somewhat in the past few years, but the
>> > related hate of package management systems that drop 3rd party
>> > packages into system-level directories
>
> And this one is just insane.
>
> The BSD people, whose package management system is pathetically
> inadequate, seem to feel that we must use all use an unnecessary, and
> yet inadequate hack of file locations in order to provide a semblance of
> order.
>
> I, for one, will be glad when all of that generation are dead.
the ability to (for instance) tar up everything in /usr/local and know
for a certainty you have backed up everything package-wise that was
not part of the base OS install, allowing you to do a clean reinstall,
is useful. As far as the relative utility of the package mgmt systems,
I'd put the current OpenBSD pkg_* tools (and the ports tree) up
against anything else out there, including apt. If you haven't looked
at the non-trivial improvements made in the past few years following
the complete rewrite of pkg_*, you are proceeding on false
assumptions.
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until non-action is achieved
when nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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