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From: Connor Lane Smith <cls@lubutu.com>
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 14:23:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e24482061003290623s14466bc0yc53dbff01af3921@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000d01cacf40$936a6340$ba3f29c0$@com>

On 29 March 2010 14:05, Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was speaking strictly in terms of binary management within the system. Does no one understand what context is?

A package manager's main duty is to handle repositories and
dependencies. If we're looking at nothing more than management of
local binaries then yes, systems without it get along fine. But if you
look at the bigger picture it becomes obvious why a package manager is
necessary and isn't just for "systems that are already a mess." This
is called putting things in context.

Thanks,
cls



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-29 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
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 [this message]
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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