Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: > I was wondering if the devs are, perhaps, working behind the scenes on > putting > together some PM as per the long thread(s) from a few weeks ago. Is there > still interest in and momentum behind this idea?
As almost always, I'm way behind reading this (and other) lists. So I stumbled upon those PM mails from early march a few days ago. While I'm much in favor of a more PM oriented approach, seeing that RPM looks like its getting to be the prime candidate makes me somewhat uneasy. Me hatred for RPM is most likely no longer rectified, as I haven't used it for ages (ever since I switched to (B)LFS). I remember vividly struggling with SuSE installations after they went to RPM. I was virtually unable to select a set of packages that met my wishes and was without conflicts. The automatic dependency resolution seemed to make matters even worse. Maybe this is just my limited understanding or plain wrong spec files or whatever, but it looked to me like when you, e.g., upgraded libpng-1.2.25 to libpng-1.2.26, all packages that depend on the former have now missing dependencies ... RPM was one of the prime factors that made me seek alternatives, and eventually find LFS. Now what shall I do? For the past 3 years, I've been working on my own PM (currently in a redesign, erm, hiatus). Of course I have some kind of emotional attachment, but if something better comes along, I can bear dumping it. But when I read that RPM doesn't allow the same file owned by more than one package, the uneasyness returns. It had me scratching my head, too, but I finally found a solution that made sense to me: The file from the latest installed package wins. If this package is removed, the version from the then newest package is reinstalled. Simple. Effective. I really don't know what to do right now. Abandon my own PM, use whatever LFS ends up using? Try to convert the .spec files (or its siblings in other PM implementations) to mine (and finish the dang thing in the first place)? Or install Ubuntu and forget about knowing my system well? Don't get me wrong, LFS is in no way to blame for the dilemma I'm in. I'm honestly seeking advice. As I said, my PM rewrite is on hiatus (my spare time is currently very limited, and some functionality is going to be rather hard to implement). So an agreed upon, good, working PM may be an easy way out. Thanks for listening to the drivel, Hans-Joachim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
