On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:46:58 -0400 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Sun Sep 2 16:41:20 EDT 2012, gleb.ax...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Ok. Anyway, no one will write so huge and complicated code (like > > sorcery from Source Mage GNU/Linux) in rc. > > that's a good thing, right? > > - erik > sorcery is a nice package manager; the only one i've ever actually liked, but yeah, it's a monster. a short time after i stopped using it i was interested to see someone report he'd actually reduced the size of his shell script by converting it from bash to ordinary sh; using the proper tools instead of bashisms had shortened it. i wondered what would happen to sorcery if so converted, but it was just idle speculation. -- This is obviously some strange usage of the word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.
