Triggers in dpkg/APT?

Triggers in dpkg/APT?

Posted Aug 3, 2004 16:43 UTC (Tue) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)
In reply to: Triggers in dpkg/APT? by AnswerGuy
Parent article: OLS: An introduction to Conary

Assessment of triggers is the one thing in the Conary whitepaper that I tend to agree with. Triggers require that too many packages know too much about each other: this creates more complexity and points of breakage than it's worth. Think of it as dependency hell on drugs.

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