From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] complaints about new web site
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060128085244.GA442@routi.local.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:18:28 -0500
Message-Id: <20060128141832.88F171E8C29@holo.morphisms.net>
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> 1.) We create two places to look for software (sources and web)
> 
> 2.) It may be stuff _new_ people commonly want - I don't want GCC on
> Plan 9.  And those people probably don't really want GCC either.

No one really wants gcc.  But TeX was the original "additional software"
and it remains useful and worth being easy to find.  So is Python.  

Everything on the additional software page is links to sources,
so there's really only one place to find the archives.  There's also
only one real place to look for software, and that's the web page,
unless you like reading large unsorted lists of software packages.
(What Uriel has built is not an index.  It is a table of contents.
A real index would actually help a lot.)

Russ