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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> posted |
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20080909020645.73288af9@snowmobile, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 |
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02:06:45 +0100: |
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> If you consider package.provided to be your package manager provided |
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> tool, you need a much better package manager. Paludis has 'importare' |
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> for tracking (with full uninstall, upgrade, slotting and dependency |
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> handling capabilities) manually built packages. I assume Pkgcore has |
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> something similar. |
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<the light dawns> Nice toy indeed, both for users and for developers |
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wanting to get tabs on everything a new package is doing that affects the |
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system, pre-ebuild-creation! =:^) |
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> Having to write an ebuild just to install something in a package manager |
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> friendly way and be able to uninstall it cleanly later is a defect, not |
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> a feature. |
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Impressively stated, but it still doesn't get past the simple open |
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accessibility bit, letting the user-sysadmin do simple real-time |
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modifications of how the package appears on and interacts with the |
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individual system. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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