Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility

[Stuart Krivis]

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alex Hayes wrote:

> AppDrake or InstallDrake
> 
> utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp 
> directory, run through the ./configure, make and make install, or 
> alternatively running an install.sh or other script.  even for those of us 
> who have no problem installing software, this would seem like a Good Thing.

You're basically describing the FreeBSD ports system, although it is
accessed by "make," instead of a new utility.



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