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Package manager featuresPackage manager featuresPosted Sep 25, 2003 17:53 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: The Great Package Management Experiment by torsten Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment *Install programs into subdirectories. What do you mean by this? Installing packages into /this/is/my/fave/bin/ will probably fail because they aren't found, or they don't find their pieces *Recognition of source-installed apps (non-packaged, non-managed). Please tell how you want the system to find out that of the 300 files changed today, 20 are in one package, 35 in the other, most of the rest is leftover junk from building, and then there are unrelated changes. *Soft symlink into the file system (prevents overwrites, etc). Dunno what you mean here. If you symlink, the original link is gone. *Self-contained installation - no reliance on a script server. What does this mean? *Universality - should work on many *NIX. Just compile RPM for it, and be done. Just the (very minor) issue of getting all *NIX people to use RPM for packaging... Debianites will come screaming for your hide, for starters ;-)
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Package manager features Posted Sep 28, 2003 23:26 UTC (Sun) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link] You obviously have no major experience with relinking or scriptable package installation. I imagine this is because you have not discovered the problems associated with rpm package management. Stay with your RPM's and be happy. All of the points above are understandable by any Linux techie who has dealt with system management issues, packaging, and package management. They are also valid points, which indicate the weaknesses in all the current package management systems.
Package manager features Posted Oct 4, 2003 8:06 UTC (Sat) by marv (guest, #15720) [Link] **Install programs into subdirectories.*What do you mean by this? Installing packages into /this/is/my/fave/bin/ will probably fail because they aren't found, or they don't find their pieces Mainly for user-land installs.
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