-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:12:24 +0200 (EET), Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > 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. > > > > 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. Well, one could work with additional distribution-specific lists of package names. Another way would be to divide the package repositories into well-defined classes and ask the user explicitly from which classes to install. I just think that with e.g. apt4rpm it's too easy to point the tool to a repository of unstable/testing packages and pull in lots of core dependencies because the GNOME 2.2 or KDE 3.1 versions contained within the repository are so attractive. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+dOqK0iMVcrivHFQRAlfUAJjOhRWtfusEPZrIi8Z57jrMtWZ7AJ9kr+KL Qz9G8gP0yGhMV4Ll6hkdSA== =Al0j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
