From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8AB033EC-13D4-4BD3-A70F-B9CE7D724238@fastmail.fm> References: <20100325114948.GA7249@polynum.com> <31C84C15-2EE3-46CA-BE9F-48F20886ADF7@fastmail.fm> <202b36ec0f14adf4b09e53052147ccc8@brasstown.quanstro.net> <11721B64-8041-4D96-94E3-49472F941C38@fastmail.fm> <32d987d51003281236m7a890b0dkaf4de23191fa3d47@mail.gmail.com> <8AB033EC-13D4-4BD3-A70F-B9CE7D724238@fastmail.fm> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:28:47 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> 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: f741c244-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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. > > > 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. > > 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! > > -- > Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. > -- Alan Perlis > > > > > >