Peter da Silva writes: > On 2008-12-31, at 10:23, Joshua Rodman wrote: >> The BSD people, whose package management system is pathetically >> inadequate > > This is a use of "inadequate" that I haven't run into before. Usually > that implies that it's worse, rather than better, than the system one > is advocating.
RPM is pretty hateful, but every time I try to go from dpkg+apt to ports, I get a headache -- mostly from dealing with dependencies, but also from the ever-changing recommended practices for updates -- and larger utilities bills. Honest question: How can one defend the claim that dpkg suffers from "meta-package-system-of-the-week" (apt has been around for something like a decade) without saying the same about FreeBSD (cvsup, csup, freebsd-update, etc -- and ports has even more to worry about)? Michael Poole
