Alfred M. Szmidt said: > Why not create a magical /pkg directory into which one could move > rpms, or debs and magically install them. Obviously, moving the file > out of the /pkg directory would deinstall and reconstitute the > package. > > Would you like to do this? > > This sort of thing would make sys-admining MUCH easier and might > perhaps be a ``killer-app'' which makes GNU/Hurd catch on. > > I always thought that translators were the "killer-app", looks like I > was wrong. :) > > By the way, web-hurd is meant for disucssions about the Hurd web > pages, so I have changed the CC to help-hurd. > > Cheers.
Perhaps you could join Source Mage GNU/Linux and we could work on a port as Source Mage GNU/HURD, as Debian has done. We have a _very_ nice package management system. 'Course, I'm a little biased, but heh. :) -Sandalle -- PGP Key 0x5C8D199A5A317214 http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5A317214 Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcemage.org/ http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
