Subject: Re: Notes and Thoughs on System Packages
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/23/1998 13:37:53
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> An even worse idea is trying to install anything but the "diskless base
> package" on a diskless client.  Wanting to do do is also, IMNSHO, a
> bogus requirement.  Even trying to "upgrade" a client from the client is
> silly -- just do it on the damn server and be done with it.

So you're saying we have to port pkg_add to every system out there
that does NFS? Who's going to do the NT port?

cjs
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