[companion-discuss] Stupid User (or Usability) question

[Keith Bierman]

Having had some issues with the CUPS installation from blastwave with a particular nevada build+local environment I figured I'd try the companion CD version just to see if that cured things (of course, blastwave's worked fine with a previous nevada build (51) so I'm betting it's something changed in nevada_current ;>). But that's not the point of my post, just background.

wget (wgot?) the entire CD and then looked for CUPS. Not a problem, but pkgadd -d SFWcups etc. resulted in some warnings about needing other packages. So pkgadded them, etc. This seemed a whole lot more tedious than the blastwave pkg-get ....

Am I missing something about pkgadd usage, or have we built the companion packages in a way that's suboptimal (viz.  adding a bit of functionality should appear more like adding functionality ... not playing hunt the needle ;>)??
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