Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let me point out that I don't think you can find *anyone* who will > argue that the 'dpkg -iGROEB' system used by these dpkg/disk methods > (harddisk, cdrom, nfs, mounted) is better. In fact, using 'dpkg > -iGROEB' is much worse: > > * it doesn't do proper dependancy ordering > * since it doesn't do proper ordering, running it causes lots of > scarey message; these messages are bad in two ways: > - they are a turn off to new users, who conclude that debian is > obscure, and broken > - they mask real bugs by all the noise generated > * it requires several runs of the configure step to get the packages > properly installed, due to the ordering problems
Unless dpkg-multicd has maniacally changed since bootfloppies 2.0.3 or so (when I last installed slink), it suffers from all these problems. > The only arguments I've had from people who want to retain these > methods have already stated they're simply sticking to these default > methods due to inertia. Hardly. Jason's already admitted there *are* situations where apt loses to other methods, no matter how rare these situations might be. -- James "Never trust trucks"
