Subject: Re: Things That Suck About pkgsrc, part 3
To: None <root@garbled.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 07/17/1998 10:51:12
Tim Rightnour writes:
> #  I agree that we want to have easy to use tools. I'm just saying that
> #  smit is a piece of crap and should not be used as a model for
> #  anything.
> 
> When I say model it on smit..  I guess I mean:
> "Smit has a decent curses UI, and menu structure"
> 
> The screens when you go to do something, are, and I agree.. horrid.

Well, we have the very, very earliest beginnings in sysinst. At this
point, it is very primitive, but only one person has done any work on
it. If people would start hacking on it and improving it, that tiny
seed might grow into a big tree.

Perry