Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons

[Hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>]

No, complexity was always there. Science and also computer science try to address this problem with the help of various tools and if you don't know which one of them to use it is your own fault.
If you don't want to or cannot you are free to go and live in a forest, because we won't just go away to make you feel better.
Don't show any mercy, do it the right way. In the end everyone will benefit.

I'm just sick of this shit, sorry. And back to work!

-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
Sent: Montag, 29. März 2010 13:29
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons

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