From: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Message-Id: <199703120135.SAA31138@caldera.com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
To: brannanp AT musc DOT edu (Paul W Brannan)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:35:08 -0700 (MST)
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.95.970311175525.6712B-100000@atrium.musc.edu> from "Paul W Brannan" at Mar 11, 97 05:56:24 pm
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> 
> > > There's a main directory like /usr/apps then below that there are the
> > > package names like /usr/apps/omega.
> > > In the omega directory, there's the omega-specific files.
> > > You want to uninstall one app, you just wipe out the
> > > /usr/apps/omega directory.
> > 
> > Yes, thats the way that it is done now, however when shared libs
> > become a reality, and other programs share other files,
> > uninstalling becomes more complicated.  Ever try and uninstall
> > WordPerfect 6.1 from Win 3.1?
> 
> How about we port rpm to dos and when we want to uninstall something we
> just use one program which checks certain dependencies?
> 
That'd be my vote.  Rpm, or something like it, would be a welcome addition
to DOS (where I find myself constantly losing files).

Tim Bird