On 18/09/2015 00:48, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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
I read it, and now I also feel much better :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
