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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive |
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Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:12:18 +0000 |
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:08:06PM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 18:02, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > I suspect that the feedback you were getting really meant something
> > _less_ like "I like self-contained systems" and something _more_ like
> > "Please get out of my office without making a fuss. I honestly don't
> > care about this stuff."
>
> "self-contained" is in the eye of the beholder, too. One of the thing I
> *liked* about Arch vs Subversion was that it would work over plain HTTP.
>
> But if I was installing Arch under Windows, I'd want to be able to run 1
> wizard, and have it all installed. It wouldn't matter to me whether the
> wizard installed Cygwin.
You could most likely rig this with a couple hours and a copy of
InstallShield, if anybody has one lying around. It's commercial crap
but so is Windows.
> Reminds me of Debian. Hmm, apt4win32... *ow*!
Some kook once suggested that seriously. It just ain't that easy. The
only path to greatness is treading on the faces of giants, or something
like that.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Davide Libenzi, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Tom Lord, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Tom Lord, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Davide Libenzi, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Miles Bader, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Robert Anderson, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Davide Libenzi, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Adrien Beau, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Johannes Berg, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Robin Green, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/29