Re: Software/HD ecology

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Ajanta <ajanta@no.spam> writes:

> Yes I do understand that this does not come standard with unix. The
> discussion was about the desirability for it to be so. There was a
> suggestion that an extention of ls would be a logical choice; the
> system would of course have to log/record some extra information in
> addition to what it already does . However, some people felt this was a
> good opportunity to start arguing over the word "log".

Yes, indeed.  Alas, the Unix crowd appears to follow the Perl
philosophy `There is more than one way to do it', and hence, different
Unices have different ways.

Some Linux distributions have rpm, others have dpkg and apt-get.
FreeBSD has pkg_add and friends.  Solaris also has something named
pkgfoo, for some value of foo.  MacOS has fink, amongst others.  Since
MacOS is based on FreeBSD (or is it NetBSD or OpenBSD) in some way,
maybe MacOS also uses pkg_add and friends?

Of course, these tools only do something if they are actually used.
Originally, several files and directories were mentioned; it appears
that at least two versions of Emacs were installed -- one in /usr and
one in /usr/local.  Of course, I have no idea which system maintains
the files.
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