>> > Are package managers necessary? Well, no. >> >> What???? We need this to keep consistency, ... >> >> > One way of managing software >> > is simply to install individual software programs/libraries as needed, >> > and allow each item to handle its own updating or uninstallation (or >> > even just leave that to the user to do manually). >> >> Within stable Debian and security updates and volatile, this is supported. > > If the OP would like to do things manually, I invite him to try > Slackware as there is no default package manager (or a very minimal one > that will install and remove packages but not much more). Packages are > little changed from their upstream release and if there are conflicts > between packages, well the system administrator gets to figure that > out. > >> I do not know what you mean by "manually", though. > > See Slackware. ;-) >
It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one directory and to uninstall the program would just involve a simple removal of the directory. If I recall correctly a few years ago, there exist a distro that was produced entirely for this kind of pkg philosophy. -- In Liberty Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]