On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:02:59 -0500 (EST), Jeffrey D. Spaleta wrote:
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> > I do have a problem however, including a packaging tool like apt-get in
> > Red Hat, and having someone like my mom, try to use it to download a
> > program she wants from some random apt repository, and having apt-get try
> > to uninstall such core things as glibc and replace them with a non Red
> > Hat version. Sounds funny doesn't. I've seen people
> > show up in irc complaining about situations like that with apt, just
> > recently in fact.
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> Yes, the increasing number of people who use apt4rpm to mix in
> packages from Raw Hide or the current public beta. Somehow they
> manage to break their system completely and complain about the
> distribution or Linux in general. A good package management tool
> would shield the ordinary user from touching core components by
> mistake.
How's the poor package management tool supposed to know which of foo, bar
and fuzz is core component? RPM's don't have a priority tag like .deb's do
so there's simply no way a tool can automatically protect users from
messing with core components. apt-rpm has "rpmpriorities" file for this
purpose but that's simply leaving the job of deciding whats important and
what's not to apt packager and end user -> doesn't work terribly well.
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