[RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

[Vivek Khera]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

> I am purposelly not looking at any previous solutions right now... If
> and when it is determined that changes to the current system are
> needed I will look at them then for ideas of what has not worked.
> (like the Internet or other large complex systems we don't know "how"
> to make it we only know what doesn't work)

Take a look at MacPorts and see how they install + activate software  
and run away as fast as you can.  It makes life very hard for  
upgrades, etc.