On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:29:56PM -0400, Sean wrote: | On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:58, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | > | > > This is a vaild point, in my mind. Implementing a BSD-style ports | > > structure would help to get around this in my mind. | > | > Explain this one? I'm unfamiliar with ports. | | The BSD ports system is one where you download source instead of | binaries. The Gentoo distribution has a similar system, with it's | portage and emerge programs.
Thrash and bloat. Well, I'm thinking of the 486sx router, dhcp server and secondary MX I have with only 8MB RAM, 32MB swap and about 280MB disk space. If I had to download the source too, and have a compiler on-hand, and watch it thrash through _that_. It already thrashes plenty just reading the package lists. (at least it doesn't die with an mmap error like the rpm port of apt does on a machine with 96MB RAM! apt is wholly useless on redhat because of that) -D -- Windows, hmmm, does it come with a GUI interface that works or just pretty blue screens? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
