Re: how to upgrade a whole machine ...

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 17:55 Uhr +0200 07.05.2008, Dieter Baron wrote:
> In article <p06240802c4477d725823@[130.83.118.66]> Hauke wrote:
> : It seems to me that pkgsrc is really more of a research thing than
> : anything that eventually will converge to a simple, powerful tool.
>
>   Thank you for dismissing all the hard work various people put into
> pkgsrc to get there, and for your lack of faith in our efforts.

While sloppily worded, "research thing" is not a slur. So I feel you 
are taking my impressions (and that's all I wrote about) the wrong 
way.

In many fields, pkgsrc has come a long, long way. But three 
half-finished bulk build schemes, and half a dozen convoluted recipes 
presented each time the issue "update of a pkgsrc installation" comes 
up, do show there's something missing still.

I wholeheartedly subscribe to Herb's

At 9:01 Uhr -0600 07.05.2008, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> This isn't by any means, me saying "you all suck" because obviously 
> there's a lot of hard work being put in here... I feel, however, as 
> though maybe we've lost track of the end user in all of this ...

        hauke

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