[ILUG] "unix style" package management

[Liam Bedford]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 16:47:31 +0100 (IST)
Paul Jakma <paulj at alphyra.ie> blurted in message
Pine.LNX.4.44.0205101641460.12154-100000 at dunlop.admin.ie.alphyra.com:

> On Fri, 10 May 2002, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
> > Nick Murtagh wrote:
> 
> > > It would be nice to combine this with the NeXT idea of 
> > > hiding application files from ordinary users...
> > 
> > Hmm, users should be restricted to ~ or at least /home ?
> 
> nah. packages were in a self-contained directory. if you opened up 
> that dir in the *Step file viewer (shelf, whatever its called) you 
> just saw an icon / name of the programme. if you looked at that dir 
> from the shell there were a whole bunch of files there.
> 
> ie, you might have an Omniview dir, and from within the UI all you 
> would ever see is the Icon for Omniview (or its name, whatever). but 
> from the shell you'd see it was a directory with icons, libs, 
> executables, etc..
> 
> sure, doesnt glen still have the OpenStep cd that he borrowed off me a 
> year or two ago that Mr. White sent to me a year or two before that? 
> install it and have a look. :)
> 
that's just what MacOS X does... I wonder why <g>

Podge, prod at one of the mac's in there from Terminal.

L.
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