From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA21621; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:14:39 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA21051 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:14:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3EHFcjq029247 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:15:39 +0200 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDny1-0001Wd-00; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:14:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:14:29 -0700 From: David Brown To: Kenneth Knowles Cc: "Brandon J. Van Every" , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] BSD vs. GPL Message-ID: <20040414171429.GA5773@davidb.org> References: <20040414061600.GA25717@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040414084028.GA26285@tallman.kefka.frap.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040414084028.GA26285@tallman.kefka.frap.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 gpl:01 2004:99 knowles:99 autoconf:01 installer:01 0700,:01 dave:03 wrote:03 argument:03 probably:05 i'd:06 maybe:06 bsd:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 341 On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:40:28AM -0700, Kenneth Knowles wrote: > Advanced package management is not particularly critical, however. > After countless years of windows, 2 years of Slackware, and about a > year of Gentoo, I'd say it only saves maybe an hour or two per month. > (I'm using Windows and Slackware as examples of systems with no > significant automated package management: autoconf == wizard > installer) Interesting argument. It would be hard to describe how much time good package management saves me, since without it, there would just be many things I wouldn't do. If I were to try and upgrade things as frequently as I do now, I would probably spend 5-10 hours a week just doing the upgrades. Dave ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners