On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Shawn Walker<[email protected]> wrote:
You answered my question by asking back other questions.
Did you do this because you think, the others were wrong, or because I
think the others were right, too?
Here is my response:
Case A) {The others were and / or are wrong}: Would this justify
repeating their mistakes?
Case B) {The others were and / or are right}: Why then starting from
scratch, instead of just adopting theirs?
> Stephen and Bart's blogs cover many of the reasons why quite well, I
> encourage you to read them:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/observations_on_packaging
> http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/pkg_1_a_no_scripting
> http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/pkg_leaving_the_build_system
> http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/pkg_no_more_installer_magic
Thank you for the links, Shawn, but I'm an old guest on Dr. Hahn's Blog.
I read them when you last pointed me to them in 2008 ...
I see the points (patching-nightmare, postinstall scripts, versions).
> http://blogs.sun.com/barts/entry/rethinking_patching
Oh, I didn't read Bart's blog yet.
Doing this now ...
--
Regards,
Martin Bochnig
_______________________________________________
pkg-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
