From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <1518530380.490561.1269285056.6371DECC@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" References: <1518397859.379213.1267373104.4DD6AB1E@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1518440723.631581.1267818416.51CB1908@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:59:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [9fans] There is no fork Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf52fb0a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > On 2/12/18, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > [ a neat rant I agree almost to the pixel with... ] Thanks! > The message, of course, is that one should not need hundreds of > thousands of files deployed on a workstation and that there should be > packages to remove software, rather than install it. Who knows, that > may happen, one day. I like it when the uninstall command is "rm -r". Sadly, I think the only unixy system where that's even remotely practical any more is Mac OS X. GNUstep too, of course, but I don't know if it will automatically search for packages you move. As well as being removable, their foo.app directories can easily contain a lot of dependencies as well as the program itself, not relying on the system to provide all dependencies. I remember concluding that's how it should be done, but don't remember all my reasoning now. -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer