Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment
Date: 07:06 on 22 May 2006

* 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."


> 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?

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Luke Kanies 04:45 on 22 May 2006
- David Champion 07:06 on 22 May 2006
  - Luke Kanies 15:34 on 22 May 2006
Martin Ebourne 08:55 on 22 May 2006
- Peter da Silva 11:39 on 22 May 2006
  - Martin Ebourne 12:21 on 22 May 2006
    - too deep to show

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