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Curt Sampson <
> wrote:
> On 28 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>
> > Say I have to install a unix system on 20 machines (which happens quite
> > often for me), and I have one day to acomplish this... No way I'm going
> > to make it if I was going to choose *BSD... I first have to install one
> > machine, download every single program I need (and some I might not need,
> > just incase), every single dependent software (libs etc). I then have to
> > compile, install and configure...
>
> Well, you could do it that way. Or you could just do the install,
> edit rc.conf, and use pkg_add to add the precompiled binaries of
> all the software you like. The fact that you personally don't want
> to use the package facilties and precompiled packages hardly makes
> NetBSD a bad OS in this respect.
When did the 'pkg_add' come? I installed my HP about five or six month ago,
and the only thing FreeBSD I could find, was five tar files... No pkg_add
there, and I've never heard about any precompiled packages... (I need to
reinstall the machine, it's just so messed up).
> > When this machine is done, it would have
> > taken me, what? 2 days?
>
> I can set up a machine in well under an hour. Less, if it's a nice
> fast machine (i.e., not a SparcStation IPX :-)).
Then you use some sort of packaging system and precompiled binaries (see
my coment/question above).
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