From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7bcd46ed36cf2868f4e0385dcf53d9c0@proxima.alt.za> References: <7bcd46ed36cf2868f4e0385dcf53d9c0@proxima.alt.za> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:30:45 -0300 Message-ID: <32d987d51003270230h2427e75fu8b944e113ad458a2@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5977a4c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I guess there would be less resistance if contrib (by a more > appopriate name, I think fgb concurs here) was part of the base > distribution. > not really, if contrib was part of the distribution the guys at the labs would get the mails I get about contrib support. they way I see it, Plan 9, the official distribution is a research operating system, not an end user product, in an ideal world some guys would step out and say, hey let's make a end user Plan 9 distribution and maintain it, give support to the users, get a pkg system going with what the user wants, and all the other things that end user products offer, this is what I tried to imply in the previous posts... this requires effort, one that I'm not going to make nor ask anyone either. -- Federico G. Benavento