Re: [TCLUG:20305] Package formats (was: Re: suidperl)

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

I certainly never said Debian's packages system is bad.  In fact, I find it
quite handy and efficient.  I was just saying that Slackware's packaging
system isn't as bad as everyone seems to think (IMHO).  I've never had a
problem with packages overwriting anything.  I could see though, if you
have package X version 1 installed and wanted package X version 2 installed
and just when ahead and installed the later with installpkg, it would
overwrite potentially important files.  This is exactly the reason that the
upgradepkg command was invented.  In my experience, many haters of Slack's
packaging system don't really know how to use it, and don't seem to want to
even take the time.  Not to say that you or Mike are one of those people,
however.

Gabe


On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:16:27AM -0500, blutgens@sistina.com wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:01:19AM -0500, Gabe Turner wrote:
> >> 
> >
> >> about the Slackwareians, though ;-)
> >
> >	Right... a tarball with a script is much to simple for RedHat's
> >	overly complicated vision of the world.  Personally, I love Slacks
> >	packaging system... Doesn't get in the way of compiling from
> >	source.
> 
> Yeah, I personally love the thought of a file overwriting my /etc/passwd with
> something else without my knowledge. 
> 
> None of the packaging systems prevent you from building from source. Noone say
> you can't set  your make install path to /usr/local/my_source_installs_path or
> whatever. The key difference is, if I am building something from source, and
> make fails I can look at that and go "Hmm...o.k. $apt-get install
> <missing-header-file>" rerun make and I am golden.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Gabe
> 
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Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu

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