Angel Tsankov wrote:
The LFS book says how to install certain applications but it does not
say anything about uninstalling software. How does Linux handle
uninstalling software?
Has someone tried out Matthias Benkmann's package users approach to
package management? If so, could you please answer the following questions:
-did you encounter any unexpected problems, e.g. ones not mentioned in
the hint at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt;
-did you find any disadvantages;
I used it a while ago (to build LFS-6.1) before swapping to paco for my
most recent build.
As far as I remember, there were no problems that weren't listed in the
LFS specifics section, or that fell under the general 'common problems'
section. However, it is a while ago and I've no tried 6.1.1 or 6.2 using
the hint.
The only disadvantage was that it was a bit time consuming, and that it
made it harder to script the build. (I guess I could have used sudo, but
it seemed easier to switch to paco instead.)
Hope that helps
Dave
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