Friday, June 10, 2005

On making pkgadd smarter

"IMO, one of the things that [this table] suggests is that the Solaris (SVR4) packaging software needs to be enhanced to have automatic update capability. For instance, the funny thing about pkgadd(1M) is that although it performs dependency checking nicely, it doesn't know how to do anything helpful with what it finds out."

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...