On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 13:31:30 PM -0400, Daniel Carrera
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Marco Fioretti wrote:
>
> >and it also mentions the firefox installer as another PITA.
>
> In which way is the FF installer a PITA?
The reasons why they say this are explained in the other messages of
the thread that I posted. In a nutshell (_my_ understanding of _their_
arguments):
1) anything that can only be done manually is a pain for automated,
site wide installs and upgrades
2) the system package manager (rpm, apt, whatever) is not informed
of what is added, hence it might not object later if you install
with it some 3rd party thing that messes up what you added by
hand to OO.o, Firefox, etc...
Again, I can confirm the validity of the same arguments in another
case, Perl Modules, so I understand their desire to NOT see such a
fashion become general.
Ciao,
Marco
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Imagination is more important than knowledge -- Einstein
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
