On 24 Oct 2006, at 03:11, Sean Conner wrote:
apt-get, emerge, yum, ports, they're all hateful.
GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobar
Sorry, I can't find that package.
What? I can't just use the generic name by which *everybody* calls
it to
get the latest and greatest? No no nooooo! I have to search
through the
database to find the *exact* version string you compare against.
GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobard-stable-4.3.2.4.x86.bin
My favourite version of this hate is 'dig' on Debian, it's a popular
program,
so in the fucked up crazy world i'd live in, i'd expect
apt-get install dig
to work. but of course ...
E: Couldn't find package dig
now I really wouldn't mind if dig wasn't the package name but someone
had say
made dig an alias to the right package.
however i seem to recall that dig was part of bind and has been
released under
bindtools on some platform. (i'll skip the apt-get line and the
inevitable
E: line).
of course its actually under dnsutils. oh and if you are looking for
traceroute,
don't bother looking under pingutils or netutils - traceroute is
available as
traceroute, you see they like to set you up good and proper before
they roger
you.
G.
p.s. and lets not even go into the pain that is trying to use CPAN
and a package
manager.
p.p.s. if the above leads into a 'perl sucks' thread, so help me i'll
make the
culprits use more software as punishment ;-).
