On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
>
> > I have experienced the same problems, but would also hate to see every
> > package include all of the programs upon which it depends. The issue I see
> > is simply the package, in many cases, could be excessively large.
> [...]
>
> Agreed, though if something like this was implemented, it would
> hopefully be more like *BSDs "pkg_add", i.e. if a dependency is missing,
> the necessary libraries/programs are downloaded automatically.
> Problem I see with this is that such a mechanism can only work reliably
> in a "controlled" environment like e.g. the *BSD ports trees. After all,
> if something is missing, we don't want the packager to go out and just
> randomly find the next best library, but rather one which is guaranteed
> to work on our system.
>
Totally agree, but I suppose nothing prevents a company such as Red Hat
from creating a directory for this sort of package (a directory whose
contents are strictly supervised/controlled to guarantee the compatability
with the sustem) while many other packages go to a contrib directory of
sorts...
------------------------------
Nitebirdz
http://www.linuxnovice.org
Tips, articles, news, links...
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
