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

[hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>]

Following your logic we must be one of the luckiest mailing list around.
We use ls -t. It's better than git for your task.

On 3/29/10, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2010, at 20:36, Federico G. Benavento wrote:
>> I think it all comes down to simplicity, you install the app, you
>> run the
>> app, it looks like some of you would like to add complexity just
>> because
>> you think it's the right thing to do.
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> Well.. it's experience with Linux (and, I suppose, BSD). If you
> install stuff from source it's not long before you almost have no idea
> what's in /usr/local. You might remember what you installed, but there
> will be a lot of binaries with names that just don't make sense or
> correlate to anything. Good luck uninstalling a package or cleaning up
> when you upgrade one and find the new version doesn't install all the
> same files so you're left with, for example, stray header files which
> could screw up future compiles. Actually I use git on /usr/local which
> both gives me an uninstall option and (with some rather long options)
> a list of files installed with each commit. "All" I have to do is
> remember to commit after each make install.
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> I don't know if history came up because venti could offer similar to
> what I use git for, but that would only work if you installed only one
> package per day. Now on Gnunix if you can get an app going with just
> one package install you can call yourself lucky!
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> Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
> -- Alan Perlis
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