Re: netpbm vs. pbmplus
ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) wrote on 22.01.96 in <[🔎] m0teMhs-0002bSC@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>:
> Mark W. Eichin writes ("Re: netpbm vs. pbmplus"):
> > At MIT, users can select packages using "add package", which does roughly
> > * mounts the package [usually on /mit/package]
> > * adds $mountpoint/arch/$sys/bin to the user's path
> > This is not unlike the svr4 use of /opt/package, though I haven't seen
> > standardized convenience aliases (every sysadmin and half the users
> > write their own :-) I suppose these mechanisms don't fit in either?
>
> In my experience these schemes are very difficult to implement well -
> I've never seen it successfully done. They tend to interfere with the
> usual ways sysadmins and users like to set the path &c, and need
> rewriting for every shell.
I've seen it done at the local University, and it worked - but then, that
was under VM/CMS. Search paths worked completely different, and a shell -
is that something to eat? ;-)
They also tried to implement this for MSDOS, and it never worked right.
MfG Kai
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