Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I think things like apt-get and 0install are very good models for
us to follow
Blargh. I often think I'm the last person people should listen
to when it comes to package management because the topic always
brings three words to my mind: "shitload of fuck".
I've never seen one that I actually like. I've seen only two
that I don't hate with the burning passion of 1,000 suns, and
both of them are pretty minimal (Slackware's old tgz system and
my build.d. Note: they both suck, just not as much as the
alternatives)
On the other hand, this is exactly why I jump in these threads.
There's some small part of me that thinks maybe, just maybe,
we can be the first to create a system that's not a steaming pile
of putrid dogmeat.
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> Some specific things I hate about the ones I've used:
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This seems to me to be very similar to the situation with search engines
prior to google. Remember AltaVista, where two out of every three search
results were a broken link?
Seems to me, that what's ultimately needed is a huge compatibility
matrix, containing every version of every library, and its compatibility
with every version of every other library. Or something like that.
Package manager shouldn't silently use packages which have never been
used with each other before.
It's a very difficult problem, I think, but at least package owners
could manually supply a list of other packages they've tested with.
