Re: Package management idea

2011-08-24 Thread Stef Bon
On 07/24/2011 07:39 PM, David Shaw wrote: Probably bad form to reply to my own post, but, hey... Actually, while I think this idea has merit, there is a flaw which can be summed up in one word. Dependencies. I'll go away and think a little more about it. Hi, you mention dependencies. Have

Re: Package management idea

2011-07-25 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, First of all, please accept my apologies if what I'm about to write seems rather incoherent or is just plain impractical - I'm not a linux guru (candidate for 'Understatement of the Year' there :-) ) and don't really know what I'm talking about :-) Anyway... I've been thinking

Re: Package management idea

2011-07-25 Thread David Shaw
On 25/07/11 09:50, Andy Bennett wrote: Check out encap and epkg if you haven't already. Regards, @ndy Thanks for that :-) I hadn't come across encap before, so that was really interesting, but it doesn't quite fit the bill, unfortunately. I was thinking that, by doing the

Package management idea

2011-07-24 Thread David Shaw
First of all, please accept my apologies if what I'm about to write seems rather incoherent or is just plain impractical - I'm not a linux guru (candidate for 'Understatement of the Year' there :-) ) and don't really know what I'm talking about :-) Anyway... I've been thinking about package

Re: Package management idea

2011-07-24 Thread David Shaw
Probably bad form to reply to my own post, but, hey... Actually, while I think this idea has merit, there is a flaw which can be summed up in one word. Dependencies. I'll go away and think a little more about it. David Shaw On 24/07/11 15:39, David Shaw wrote: First of all, please accept