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

[Keith Bierman]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Keith Bierman wrote:

> 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 ;>)??

Oh, and I neglected to mention that despite it being loaded, it's not  
actually running (even with a reboot) ... as opposed to the pkg-get  
which ended up with CUPS running even sans reboot. No doubt, there's  
some critical step or document I failed to read ... clues appreciated!