Software installation opinions needed

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Sep 27 01:15:10 AEST 1990


Ah, you haven't *lived* until you've installed Oracle on System V/386
with Ethernet.

It requires you set up an Oracle user and so on manually, then dives into
a highly complex under-documented script... that aborts part way through
because you needed to edit a Makefile!

Worst of both worlds: not only is it expert-hostile, it's novice-hostile
as well.

And to top it off, this on a system that already has one of the best
automatic software installation systems I've ever seen.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
peter at ferranti.com



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