Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment
Date: 15:34 on 22 May 2006
David Champion wrote:
> * On 2006.05.21, in <Pine.LNX.4.58.0605212232230.32130@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
> *	"Luke Kanies" <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>> If you use Slackware, you get what you deserve, but I defy you to somehow
>> find Debian more execreble than FreeBSD.
> 
> I'd really like to, since you're defying, but I've buried those
> memories deep.  We'll have to settle for "yup, did that."

I guess I should have added a "now" on the end there.

>> and whose model can be used on other OSes?  Sure, anyone can write a one-off
>> imperative script for any OS; but I contend that if you had to write a
>> single tool that could treat any set of, say, three operating systems
>> equally, then you would find FreeBSD to be the most difficult to model
>> successfully.
> 
> Which are the other two?

Solaris and Debian, if I get to pick.  I'd recommend HP-UX and OS X if 
you're trying to make FreeBSD win (I never did find an automated way to 
reboot HP-UX nicely), but at least both of those OSes have a real 
concept of a service.

-- 
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never 
hit soft!       -- Theodore Roosevelt
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