> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>... 1809 more menu choices to follow;
>><RETURN> for more choices, <CTRL-D> to stop display.
>>
>>
>
> That makes 1,819 reasons why we need a new method for package
> installation for [Open]Solaris.

   yea verily.

   Personally I think that the SVR4 package format is well established,
trusted and reliable.  I am doing more than just thinking out loud on
this also.  I am really looking at a prototype here in the Blastwave
basement.  That is why I happened to have the package list in front of me
and I have been creating categories for software.  Those manpage type
packages all fall under a category called "docs".  So in one fell swoop a
user can issue a simple command and have all docs arrive, get unpacked
and installed.  So simple it is just stupid to not do it.  All commands
and utilities fall under "tools and utilities" and to some extent this is
just me following the single UNIX spec and ticking off things from a
shopping list.

   anyways ... I am tinkering with it.

Dennis

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