On 23/10/06, Timothy Knox wrote:
Now you want to do dependency analysis, to include everything that is required,
which seems fscking stupid to me. After all, I chose everything. By definition,
that should need no analysis.
Unfortunately, that's not true. There might be conflicts between some
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:37:27PM -0700, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
> The biggest problem I have with CPAN is the contents. Packaging tools
> only go so far, taste is also an ingredient for a good system.
>
> (And no, I'm not bitching (here) about the language, but the about the
> poor
On 10/24/06, Peter da Silva wrote:
On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Philip Newton wrote:
> And let's not even get started with databases who won't let you insert
> empty strings into VARCHAR columns, turning them into NULL instead.
Sure that's the DB and not some hateful access library that's cover
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:43:58AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> On 24 Oct 2006, at 03:11, Sean Conner wrote:
>
> > apt-get, emerge, yum, ports, they're all hateful.
> >
> > GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobar
> > Sorry, I can't find that package.
> >
> >What? I can't just use the
On 24 Oct 2006, at 04:37, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
While on the one hand, I think your idea of expecting all programs
to be
in packages of the same name is not a good requirement for a packaging
system, it of course points to the lack of an obvious way to say 'give
me the package
On 24 Oct 2006, at 03:11, Sean Conner wrote:
apt-get, emerge, yum, ports, they're all hateful.
GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobar
Sorry, I can't find that package.
What? I can't just use the generic name by which *everybody* calls
it to
get the latest and greatest? No
It was thus said that the Great seph once stated:
> Martin Ebourne writes:
>
> > Fortunately even Redhat know that up2date is the worst package manager
> > lookalike ever conceived for a non MS platform. Hence they've killed it
> > and written a new thing. At least on fedora anyhow, don't know wh
Martin Ebourne writes:
> Fortunately even Redhat know that up2date is the worst package manager
> lookalike ever conceived for a non MS platform. Hence they've killed it
> and written a new thing. At least on fedora anyhow, don't know what the
> paying customers are getting this time around.
Wai
On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Philip Newton wrote:
And let's not even get started with databases who won't let you insert
empty strings into VARCHAR columns, turning them into NULL instead.
Sure that's the DB and not some hateful access library that's covering
for a shortcoming in the language
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 14:31 -0700, Timothy Knox wrote:
> Dear up2date,
>
> PS Burn in hell forever, you hateful pig!
Fortunately even Redhat know that up2date is the worst package manager
lookalike ever conceived for a non MS platform. Hence they've killed it
and written a new thing. At least on f
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