Starfleet provide many tools to ensure that staff are well supported by processes, methods and techniques. Unfortunately they have a developed a new tools that supports this. The Gorse Fox is now nearing the end of his second day fighting with this tool.
Most of the first day was spent downloading it, because once the US comes online the network slows down noticeably... and there were many Gigabytes to retrieve.
Then it was a matter of uncompressing all of the component packages into a common directory. Then the install process begins and you realise that you have forgotten to UnZip a couple of components. You restart the process and it chugs away.
Finally it claims to be complete and asks if it should check for any updates. Answering yes added a further hour or two to the process.
Next, of course we have to add content to the tool so the Gorse Fox accesses the correct repositories in Starfleet. Unfortunately you can only consume 11 components at a time and each has to be packaged up, FTP'd, unzipped and imported. Not sure who dreamed this up, but GF would like to meet him on a dark night, in an alley, with a baseball bat.
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