Saturday, August 31, 2024

Re: I wrote this about packages and ports in 2023, hopefully still useful to some who come here

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 4:55 PM Peter N. M. Hansteen <peter@bsdly.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 03:01:22PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > If your intention is/was to help a new OpenBSD user to install
> > packages, then my feedback is a simple no. This article is far from
> > helping a beginner to easily install packages.
>
> After offering https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=172503305621176&w=2,
>
> I remembered writing that slightly longer piece, which offers some explanation
> of how things work in addition to copy-pasteable material.
>
> There is room for both approaches.
>
> --
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/
> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

I didn't say anything about HOWTOs nor copy/paste in my feedback email.
Is it me or is it too hot outside, cause i think mails on @misc are
skidding away too often ...

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