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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Passki, Jonathan P wrote:
> <rant>
<snip..it's in the archives if anyone wants to read it again....>
> </rant>
>
I have to agree with the rant, but I think we are straying off topic for
- -stable, and need to either move it completely to -ports or go private. And
I know I'm not one with time or expertise to be able to do much beyond
contribute ideas, although I have been known to catch a few errors in c code
from time to time....
Having said that...I am curious, since my previous *nix experience is Linux
(mostly RedHat, but I have played with several different versions), if there
is in the works any sort of "unified" interface. I know that RedHat (and
debian too, IIRC), has an X interface to their package management system.
While I don't necessarily think that X is the answer to everything (yeah,
it's pretty, and graphical (doesn't that make it pretty graphic?? <(}; ) ) it
does tend to be a bit slower than I like for running things under. I find
myself using X so I can run Netscape and do thngs like read the handbook,
etc, but switching over to a VC to do any "real" system work....it seems that
an ncurses based package handler shouldn't be too difficult to handle, and
could make installing ports a lot less painful. Consider it a "suggestion"
rather than a rant, put it on the "wish list" or whatever.
<rambling and otherwise thinking out loud>
If I can help, I will, but I wish I had more time to play with this stuff, so
I doubt I would be able to make much impact. It occurs to me that a perl
script might be able to handle everyhting that has been discussed here,
though TCL has the added advantage of being able to interface with Tk if run
under X, (I guess perl::Tk does that, too) which could give you the
flexibility of a single command, that could then run in graphical or
curses-based depending on the environment it sees....given a year or so I
might be able to write something like that. If someone else writes/has
written a framework for this, I would be happy to interface with them and
help polish the UI and test.
</rambling>
mike
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