From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:29:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1E47E1C7-F15B-4295-9B7F-F1CFA96508AB@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000b01cacf1f$3d25e570$b771b050$@com>
On 29 Mar 2010, at 10:07, Patrick Kelly wrote:
>> since we are trying so hard to create new problems for Plan 9, should
>> i assume the old ones have all been solved?
>
> Sadly I think this is just people adding complexity because, 'that’s
> how Linux does it', and must be correct. Either that or they desire
> complexity for familiarity; an even more chilling possibility.
On my part I guess I'm assuming complexity will come, whether we like
it or not. I don't find it easy to believe that we can avoid
complexity forever, and I get the feeling some relatively rapid growth
is coming. Could Plan 9 grows to the point of having many GUI
applications and many facilities to support those apps and it still
get by without any sort of package manager? Heh, actually I hope we
can. I was involved with maintaining a linux distro for a few years
and even given a much saner base system I'm not keen on taking up
package maintenance again. A script or two to help find what was
installed might be just the thing, and let "upstream" sort out whether
their code works with anyone else's.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
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2010-03-25 11:49 tlaronde
2010-03-25 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 15:31 ` tlaronde
2010-03-25 15:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 1:07 ` EBo
2010-03-25 16:03 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 18:11 ` lucio
2010-03-25 19:05 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-25 19:36 ` lucio
2010-03-25 19:42 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 0:52 ` EBo
2010-03-26 1:36 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-26 2:05 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 5:02 ` EBo
2010-03-26 5:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 13:33 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 5:59 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 6:09 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 6:12 ` EBo
2010-03-26 6:24 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 7:08 ` EBo
2010-03-26 13:24 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 13:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 16:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:00 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:12 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:13 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:15 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:21 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:56 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 18:44 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 18:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 21:17 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 21:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 21:49 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 17:31 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 17:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 21:15 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 21:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 22:37 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-27 4:32 ` lucio
2010-03-27 17:39 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-27 22:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 16:56 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:05 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 21:50 ` tlaronde
2010-03-27 4:15 ` lucio
2010-03-27 7:53 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-27 8:40 ` lucio
2010-03-27 9:30 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-27 13:41 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 13:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-27 11:20 ` tlaronde
2010-03-28 13:17 ` [9fans] Man pages for add-ons: pax? tlaronde
2010-03-28 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 18:39 ` hiro
2010-03-26 17:05 ` [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 20:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-27 16:46 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-27 16:54 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 17:58 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-27 18:09 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <f4d8fa41003271132k7d7e839fk78999c75ddf4b6af@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-27 18:33 ` hiro
2010-03-27 23:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 0:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 23:56 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-28 0:45 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 0:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 0:55 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 1:02 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 19:06 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 19:36 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-28 20:04 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 22:59 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 23:28 ` hiro
2010-03-29 0:59 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-29 2:11 ` Iruata Souza
2010-03-29 9:07 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 11:29 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-03-29 12:14 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 12:41 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-29 13:05 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 13:23 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-29 13:58 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-29 19:29 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-29 22:35 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 14:14 ` blstuart
2010-03-29 1:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 17:49 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-28 18:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 20:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 21:27 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 14:07 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 15:48 ` tlaronde
2010-03-26 2:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 2:04 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-29 10:12 Hiro
2010-03-29 12:33 Hiro
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