On 09/17/2015 05:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Slightly OT, but the general idea of package management isn't hard. > > Put the stuff you should have in a list, then compare what you should > have to what you do have. Go get and install what you don't have, then > make a record that you did it. > > Everything needed to get these basics right has been known for 40 years > or more - fellows like Wirth and Dijkstra figured it all out way back when. > > Sure, there's always modern stumbling blocks (like why we have subslots) > but that's extra to the essential basics. > > So why oh why do the latest generation of wunderkinds (not) always get > it so completely WRONG? 3 runs to fetch all the deps? I suppose wget and > curl don't actually do what I think they do then.... >
Heavy on bad words and light on solutions, but it made me feel better: http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/motherfuckers_need_package_management.php
