[1714] in NetBSD-Development
Re: netbsd-athena vs packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Jul 2 11:36:52 1998
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Jul 1998 23:23:06 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 11:36:32 EDT
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> Even neater would be to make a bunch of packages which had
> netbsd-athena in them. I'm also willing to help with this.
Marc and I talked about this a bit on -c netbsd last night.
The package system is mostly useful for people who don't have easy
access to lockers--mostly either notebooks, or people who can't or
don't want to run the full Athena release and so they don't have AFS
or attach or something.
So if the only people who have a good excuse to use the package system
are the same ones who have a good excuse to not run the stock release,
maybe it does make more sense to make packages with the Athena stuff
than it does to make the standard Athena release try to appease the
package system.
So I guess I'm probably more likely to do that now...
-- Dan
