Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:11:59 -0800 (PST) | From | "W. Reilly Cooley" <> | Subject | Re: Packaged Kernel |
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Neptho T. wrote: > Same prob as I stated earlier.. that requires root to install more > progams, and most of them I have encountered (efnet, linuxnet, wasteland) > wont even read a readme, and wer're going to just let them loose with > this? Sounds a bit more than many have the > intelligence power to handle.
Perhaps I am missing the problem as you are stating it. Are you of the belief that I'm talking about a large package that needs to be installed any place other than /usr/src/linux/scripts? I don't think it would be much of a task for a user (as root, indeed) to untar and ungzip a file with some scripts, docs, and such. I don't think it is difficult at all.
Does anyone *else* think that the method I have proposed is overly-demanding and difficult?
Furthermore, you ought to be more careful about what you consider "intelligence". There are a good many people who are quite intellegent and know nothing about computers. (Sometimes I think that avoidance of these damned things demonstrates superlative facilities of reason...) I am quite sure that neither John Stewart Mill or Plato knew what a Bourne shell is, yet we would be hard pressed not to consider them "intellegent".
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