Smart Package Manager: a better mousetrap (Linux.com)

Smart Package Manager: a better mousetrap (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 15, 2006 17:24 UTC (Sat) by bk (guest, #25617)
Parent article: Smart Package Manager: a better mousetrap (Linux.com)

Writing a new binary package manager these days is sort of like trying to design a better steam engine. You're wasting energy in an obsolete problem domain.

Even if you accept that it needs to be done, package management is such a context-dependent issue that I'm not sure there can be one solution for everybody.

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