----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Seal writes:
| > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 01:44:57PM -0700i, Chad R. Larson wrote:
| > > I think they're pointing out the difference between "pkg_delete", a
| > > binary part of the system, and "pkg_remove", a perl script in ports.
| >
| > Whoops! Anyway, looking at the source code, what's so great about it?
Why
| > should anyone use it?
|
| Let's take removing Samba as an example:
|
[example of how much better pkg_remove is trimmed]
This begs the question: If it does the job so much better than pkg_delete,
why hasn't its functionality been incorporated into pkg_delete?
I think the next big step for the open/free/source-available software
movement is to run C programming boot camps so guys like me who hack around
in perl but not C can get turned into effective contributers in a fortnight.
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