On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:33:11PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > and apt-get replies with: "Couldn't find package virtualbox" > > Evidently, my system is completely hosed now.
Aren't package managers swell? Waste of bloody time that would better be spent on solving the underlying problem: too damn many combinations of options and dependencies. What works for one person is unlikely to work for another. This is one reason why I rather like Phobos being statically linked like it is. If you download a D binary, it is going to run; it is self contained. (I also really love dmc and dmd for being self-contained too.) If it was dynamically linked, someone would be tempted to package it up separately and you'd get into all kinds of dependency hell. And for what? 300k in the binary? Not worth it. -- Adam D. Ruppe http://arsdnet.net