Subject: Re: installer wish-list
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <brown@cards.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/08/1995 08:38:00
>On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> I send a list of things that
>> I'd like to see in it... A short list:
>>
>> - Integration of current ffs support
>> - Integration of mkfs/newfs functionality
>> - Integration of fsck functionality
>> - Better handling of failures of various kinds
>> - Batch handling (select a group of files to install)
>> - Performance (buffer cache)
>
>I'd like to add a few.
> - Batch handling in mini-shell (rm *.O, rmdir *, etc.)
> - Forcible removal of non-empty directories (recursive rmdir/rm *)
> - Partial install of archives
>
>Can you tell I really don't like man pages?
>
> - Installation of gzipped files not containing tar archives
> - A method of selecting a MacOS path other than the most recently
> used archive install path for cpin and cpout
> - How about at least an error message when the archive isn't valid....
Just one more wish,
- How about allowing installation of non-archvied files.
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