--- Jepri wrote: [...] > As a sysadmin, > using Solaris is about > as much fun as being beaten, thanks to the lack of > unecessary and > frivolous scripts like this one. I always prefer > working on the Debian > servers. >
totally agree. w/o those frivolous scripts, we spend so many hours finding those agonizing one-liners. I also prefer ready-made scripts that I can search rapidly and install. > > If people are using it, we should include it. > Useful scripts/programs are a must. We can't deny inclusion of something useful. In the end it will benefit us all. If the RH community is already doing an "pt-get install pdfmerge" to get the program in and running. Why not us? > > But then we end up with the redhat madness where > it's hard to find a > particular program because it has been lumped in > with some related > package that doesn't share the name. > In a way I agree w/ Jepri. If I want a specific script, I would like to be able to install it right away (few Kbs of script in my system is ok!) and not download the whole package of 32mb of a larger unknown program with another weird name just to get that script running. Imagine if there were 20 scripts in 30 mbs packages. Meaning I would have to find 600 mbs of space on my harddisk plus trying to track down all the associated programs. So placing it as stand-alone package has also its advantages. Food for thought! :-) Sincerely yours, Ben Young, Systems Engineer. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
