On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Marco Bernardini wrote:
>
> > Stephen wrote:
> > >> Err, what's analog.cron exactly? Not something I distribute.
> > Marius reply:
> > >It is part of the Linux rpm distributions.
> >
> > Just curious: why isn't Analog distributed with Linux?
> >
>
> It's distributed with Debian Linux, which regards everything as part of the
> main distribution.
>
> RedHat Linux has a much smaller subset of core packages and relies on
> putting everything else in 'contrib'.
>
> I prefer Debian's model because (i) every package is quality controlled;
> (ii) the packages are integrated together more smoothly. But I suppose
> RedHat as a commercial distribution wants to disclaim responsibility for
> anything but their core packages.
In what way does redhat lose with package integration? The main
ways I could see would be the frightening lossage that ensues when
you have two packages which each depend on a different version
of a common package (not likely to be a problem with analog), and
mismatched shared libraries between the package and the base
system (again, not something I'd expect with analog).
[Offtopic alert]
Just to throw in another datapoint, NetBSD & the other BSDs use
a 'build from source' approach with pkgsrc - each program has a
Makefile, a list of packages on which it depends, details of where
to download the original source, checksums and patches. It doesn't
matter what version of the OS you are running, or on what
architecture (*), you can always just update your pksgrc tree and
type 'make install' to install and register the latest version.
The core distribution stays nice and lean, while you get the
quality control in the testing and patches for packages in pkgsrc.
(*) In the NetBSD case this is "way too many for sanity"
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