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Re: Package management tool (fwd)

FYI.

David

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> From owner-linux-gcc-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Mon Apr 29 14:44:34 1996
> Date: 	Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:33:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jim Lynch <jimlynch@netcom.com>
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> To: Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com>
> cc: linux-gcc@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Package management tool 
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> On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Marc Ewing wrote:
> 
> > Jim Lynch <jimlynch@netcom.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > HJ: You really, really, really, really need a package
> > > manager that can do dependancies between packages.
> > 
> > This is highly debatable.  My experience with thousands of customers
> > leads me to beleive that dependencies may prevent a very small number
> > of problems, at the cost of a lot of complexity.
> > 
> > > May I suggest the debian package manager? ("dpkg")
> > > 
> > > Last I heard, rpm doesn't do dependancies...
> > 
> > Not today.  Ask in 10 days...
> > 
> > -Marc
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well, perhaps the lib/gcc maintainers for linux should think about using
> both package tools. The "unstable" version of debian (that I moved to from
> Redhat) has been solid as a rock... the dependancy information included
> in the packages have been highly informative: any time I want to install
> something new from the debian distribution, I use dselect and I tell it
> to deselect all packages, and select the one I want. dselect either does
> nothing but select the package, or tells me that I need certain other
> packages installed. I download those and tell dselect to install whe whole
> set. Works flawlessly every time.
> 
> On the other hand, the redhat package manager and glint mysteriously
> stopped working... which caused me to immediately move away from redhat...
> 
> These are libs gang... we need a !!STABLE!! package manager. dpkg
> fits that bill; and to the best of my knowlege, rpm does not.
> 
> -Jim Lynch aka enOne (jimlynch@netcom.com)
> 
> 
> 
> 


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