Re: GAR versus BBC

begin  Adam Sampson  quotation:
> I think this is the point at which I wave in a friendly manner at the
> GAR developers, since I've spent the last year or so building and
> actively maintaining a desktop Linux system based on a modified
> version of GAR. In general, it works beautifully; GAR's a really nice
> ports system for this sort of thing.

	That's wonderful!  I may spend some time working on a Links
page that lists all of the other people using GAR for things!

> There's some information and a snapshot of my ports tree available at
> <http://offog.org/code/garstow.html>. The version of GAR I used has
> diverged somewhat from the original; some of my patches (to cope with
> new archive formats, checking archive PGP signatures, and so on) might
> be of interest to upstream GAR, whereas stow support probably isn't.

	Actually, I originally tried to wrangle Sneakums into the
project by begging for stow support, but it was the LVM/RAID stuff
that actually brought him in.  I'd love to see GAR support stow and
its compatriots!

> GARstow currently contains 541 packages, many of which should work in
> plain GAR or GARnome with only minor modification:
> <http://offog.org/code/garstow-packages.html>

	Wow!  That's spectacular!  Beaujolais!

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