Re: Easy Installs

[Julian R Fondren <julian@cartotech.com>]

and of course, dpkg and rpm both use huge databases and have funky
dependency ideas like: "If my database says you don't have it - you don't
have it!" and "If my database says you have it - you have it!" whereas the
current ports system makes more intelligent decisions by actually checking
and seeing of the required file/library (not "package") is there.

My points are:
  * OpenBSD already has a better alternative to any of these others
  * OpenBSD doesn't have the manpower to adequatly maintain packages for
    all its supported platforms, nor would this in success return much
    for the effort.
  * If you are incapable of waiting a few minutes for your program to
    compile while you go about your buisness, maybe you shouldn't be using
    OpenBSD at all.
  * After finally finding and downloading a package, ``command -i
    package'' isn't much "easier" than ``make && make install''