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Re: pkgfs?
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Eric Sandall |
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Re: pkgfs? |
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:30:53 -0800 (PST) |
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
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