Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive

[Andrew Suffield]

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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