[Info-vax] Logging systartup_vms.com progress to operator.log VMS 7.3-2

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-26, geze... at rlgsc.com <gezelter at rlgsc.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> STARTUP is a multi-faceted topic, and a fuller discussion is not
> appropriate for the forum of a newsgroup.

Why not ?

>
> As I have observed elsewhere, STARTUP is not a package manager.

Nobody ever said it was or even implied that. What a startup utility
should be capable of doing OTOH is to properly sequence the startup
using information supplied with the installed packages (and installed
to the correct place by the package manager) and without the user having
to manually edit startup scripts.

> A package
> manager is something else, and it would certainly be useful, although
> probably more complicated than it might first appear. 
>

Other people have managed it and it is something VMS needs especially
as VMS moves more towards using third-party libraries. Does VMS really
need another HPE SSL fiasco ? Linux handled that situation massively
better than VMS did.

Simon.

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