On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, der Mouse wrote:

> Trouble is, let that drive your choices and what you end up developing
> is whatever sells.  I want to develop what I think is good, what I
> enjoy working on and with.
> 
But if what you think is "cool" and what somebody elsee is willing to donate 
for coincide, what's the harm in using that resource?

> Yeah, again, I said something slightly different from what I meant.
> Binary packages per se don't bother me; I just ignore the silly things.
> What I really don't want is to see something like SGI's inst: it uses a
> complicated and undocumented package format, is dogmatically inflexible
> about where it installs things, keeps records in an undocumented format
> in an undocumented place...and it is the only supported way.
> 
But we are NOT selling a solution here. We are working to make something
that will be flexible  and useful to us all.
	

rob

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