From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T22:41:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT: Mail reader for Unix]

* Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> [0400 14:00]:
> Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote:
> > ln -s libintl.so.4 libintl.so.5

> Those terrible minutes where it didn't worked, I considered switching
> OS, write my own OS.. Such a disaster could have been avoided if unixes 
> instead of root/ports had a more finegrained permission system
> and a better ports system.

See NetBSD pkgviews -
lets you have multiple versions of a library installed.

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/pkgviews.pdf
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/01/06/0004.html

I'm hoping to cross-pollinate some of the rubygems ideas
to/from pkgsrc as I find out more about it.
 
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