Re: [9fans] x10

[a@9srv.net]

// however, i have seen sloppy apt-get's smashing things into
// an unusable state.  this shows that there is something
// fundementally wrong with this whole 'pull it across
// the net' philosophy and this is before we get into
// security issues.

no, i don't think it does. regardless of what model you use, 
package maintainers can always make mistakes, and there are
always security questions. the fact that the specific apt-get
implementation of the 'pull it across the net' model is 
flawed (but still pretty good) just means that apt-get needs
fixing.

how to do that without having dumps or snapshots is left as
an exercise for the reader. ;-)

the first time i cd'd into the BSD ports tree and did a make
that automatically pulled things over the net i was totally
blown away. even if i did have to go to dinner while the
package downloaded over my 14.4K modem. :-)
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