On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:54:03 -0400, Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Frank Lichtenheld wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: >>> (Mildly amusing sidenote to this discussion: I'm finally convincing >>> the senior systems guy that Packages Are Good, and now developers >>> for the upstream OS seem to be telling me Packages Are Useless, >>> because I can't even count on a critical dependency being installed >>> via the package system. <g>) >> >> ? I don't see that beeing said in the thread. Could you point out >> that for me? > Hmm. Not explicitly stated, nor really implied, but several people > commented that a system may have backported packages, packages from > testing/unstable/experimental, software that's installed from source > and which the package manager is therefore completely unaware of - in > other words, no matter what you might find in /etc/debian_version or > some other nominal reference, the configuration and binaries on the > system may not resemble a stock install of that release at all. > Taken to the extreme, that leads me to the conclusion that Packages > Are Useless. <g> (Taken another couple of steps, it leads to > "Everyone should be running Linux From Scratch".) So, modular systems via packages that allow me to install a system according to my desires; in your world make packages useless? Upon my word, your logic seems wonderfully .... unique. manoj -- "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." Author Unknown Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]