Re: OT: package management (was: Re: Updating ssh)

From: Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org)
Date: 11/29/01


Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:52:27 -0700
To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

At 12:27 PM 11/29/2001, The Anarcat wrote:

>I must admit that while I agree that the distinction between /usr and
>/usr/local must be kept, there is a problem with the way the base system
>is laid out from installation.
>
>We have no record of base system installed files as we have for third
>party packages.
>
>And there is a solution: we have a package management suite, we should
>use it to package the base system.

I really do like this idea.

--Brett

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