WDef
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Posted: Oct. 09 2006,15:59 |
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unc extensions offer almost all of the benefits of uci extensions, and they are much easier to make. You can leave man pages and docs and READMEs 'n' all in them (in fact, you should) because they use no ramdisk. I can turn all of my existing .dsl's into unc's instantly just by running a simple script. There's no real reason to load xfree86.dsl or aliendebs.dsl anymore and take up all that ramdisk.
Perhaps though some users still have a little trouble getting their heads around this ...
The only advantages ucis have over uncs - and I suspect for 99% of users these just won't matter - are:
1. unc extensions are effectively uninstallable. But for frugal, boot from iso or livecd, who cares? Just reboot :=).
2. unc extensions appear to the system to "put" files on the system, so you could still get a "collision" ie "overwrite", say, a lib with an older version (newer versions should in theory be ok, but only in theory). But this will be rare, and even rarer that this actually has any bad effects. If so - again with frugal, livecd or boot from iso - just reboot.
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