Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/13/04:25:29
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:
> >Just install all of the above, and you'll be fine. IMHO it doesn't
>
> I think that I should have them all by now.
Then how come you still have problems with `cat' and such likes?
> When a lot of programs is usually used together then I think it is perfectly
> valid to put them together in a single package. I don't know about the
> majority here, but I'm usually working on UNIX systems and therefore I use
> most of the commands quite a lot. And I think that also the scripts and
> makefiles make heavy usage at least of certain programs grouped together.
This is user-dependent. Not everybody uses these programs to run
shell scripts and Makefiles. Others might need e.g. Fileutils alone,
and I would not want to force them to download a multi-megabyte file.
It is also quite a nuisance to lump together programs which are
released separately by the GNU project, since every binary
distribution needs to be accompained by the sources.
I really don't see any problem in asking people to download several
files instead of one. After all, DJGPP is already a lot of separate
files, not a single large one.
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