🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov18.174317.9626@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> Ian Jefferson (ijeff@alfred.carleton.ca) wrote:
> : > sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> : 
> : >This is why I prefer programs that are tar.Z's or zips to those that
> : >are packages.  I can start one or more gnutars or unzips and stuff in
> : >background.  Installer has a raft of mouse clicks and dreck.

So do I, and the Purdue NeXT Archives reflect that.

> Yeah, that one bothered me too.  Most tar.Z's would unpack into a self
> contained subdirectory, but on occasion, one would dump all over my Untested
> directory, and I'd be picking bits out here and there for a while.

All the tars at sonata should make a single directory.  If
they don't, tell archive-management.  Obviously,
submissions don't count since they haven't been
approved yet.  That's one of the many things I have to check
before a submission goes through. 

It is still hard to deinstall something if the author
didn't make it easy (or use Installer, which I still am not
entirely satisfied with). 

As always, read everything the supplier gave you and give
'em grief if you don't like how they do things.  And please
thank then if you do!  Take free software but don't take its
authors for granted. 

Allen B (Ooops, a little preachy there :-) )