On Thu, 19 May 2005, Mike Garfias wrote:
> 1) the package management sucks. Big time. Whats with putting the rev
> in the package name?
I am not sure what you mean. If the package has been revised, then the
filename should be changed too.
> 2) Package dependancies. The RPMs seem to be VERY coarse grained,
> package-zxy depends on package-abc, package-def, and package-ghi, even
> though -ghi is only perpherially related (ex: PHP depending on openldap
> being installed). I have to chain multiple commands to figure out what
> needs to be removed first, before I can remove a package.
This seems normal.
If you use dpkg instead of apt-get you would have similar issues.
(As for me, I am a Pkgsrc developer and it is my package system of choice
-- but it also has primitive tools by default too.)
Jeremy C. Reed
open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
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