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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] contrib/install fgb/X11?
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:17:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <847644d6a44c483c9db5bc5316ba5c06@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikxuyP9BrOCw-S1w-4QE-kX=x4x5X-VOFQHvh6q@mail.gmail.com>

> the contrib tools are based on replica and in my experience that makes
> them slow and fragile.

My experience is I have never seen contrib be fragile, it just works, and
slow - well some of the huge packages (e.g. x11) do take a while to install,
but I have done that once per file server (i.e. twice) so it doesn't worry me.

-Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15 15:39 David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:01 ` ron minnich
2010-11-15 16:04   ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:09     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:15     ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-15 16:21       ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:17   ` Steve Simon [this message]
2010-11-15 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 16:17   ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:20     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:44       ` ron minnich
2010-11-15 18:45         ` Steve Simon
2010-11-15 16:24     ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 16:27       ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:36         ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 16:46           ` ron minnich
2010-11-15 18:34             ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 18:44               ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 18:47             ` Steve Simon
2010-11-15 18:49               ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 21:50           ` Yaroslav
2010-11-15 21:52             ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 23:33               ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-15 23:37                 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-15 23:42                   ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 23:45                     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 23:56                       ` David Leimbach
2010-11-16  0:38                         ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-16  0:59                   ` ron minnich
2010-11-16  4:47                     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-16  4:57                       ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-16  4:58                         ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-16  5:01                         ` David Leimbach
2010-11-16  5:21                           ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-15 16:26 erik quanstrom

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