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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationUntz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationPosted Jan 26, 2011 12:33 UTC (Wed) by djzort (guest, #57189)Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration
as soon as redhat (and hence fedora) gives up on rpm and its half baked apt clone - yum, this sort of discussion will be pointless.
rpm was a great idea, but debian took things to the next level by wrapping dpkg up with apt. why redhat clings to rpm+yum is beyond reasonable comprehension. most likely its rooted in redhats irrational fetish for python.
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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 12:55 UTC (Wed) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Do enlighten me, does dpkg still allow(!) the package to force interactivity during installation/update? As in, does it still have the ability to completely destroy automatic updates?
Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 13:18 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Not sure if it *can* force it, but I've been updating automatically (using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive) for over a year now and I've never come across a situation where it *does* force it.
Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 14:29 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] If by "force interactivity" you mean "prompt you by default if you don't know how to tell it not to" then the answer is "Yes." That's probably what he meant.
Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 14:43 UTC (Wed) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link]
What concept do you think the word "default" relates to: format or configuration?
Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 27, 2011 2:23 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] As soon as Debian finally wises up and embraces the (standard!) RPM packaging format and the relevant tools...
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