On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Roger Marquis wrote:
>>> (The Ubuntu /etc/alternatives symlink system and other mechanisms solve
>>> this well)
>
>
> That hasn't been my experience but then I'm not a big fan of symlinks
> which can't be safely modified outside of the (d)pkg system. As a
> genera
(The Ubuntu /etc/alternatives symlink system and other mechanisms solve
this well)
That hasn't been my experience but then I'm not a big fan of symlinks
which can't be safely modified outside of the (d)pkg system. As a
general rule you want to avoid such unnecessary layers of abstraction
where
Hello,
On 2/12/16 11:25 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
This is, indeed, a gap in the Debian world. It's one that the ports
system is a great start towards resolving. That's why I think that
ports + pkg could be a superior offering that people
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
> This is, indeed, a gap in the Debian world. It's one that the ports
> system is a great start towards resolving. That's why I think that
> ports + pkg could be a superior offering that people would flock to,
> and which deserves more focus
