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:asmodai wrote @ Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:06:22 +0200:
:> -On [20050903 14:27], walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:> >wip/pkgmanager is a new attempt at an upgrade tool. I've been making
:> >suggestions to the author who has been very happy to have the feedback.
:> >It's still alpha-quality at this early stage, but promising.
:>
:> I hope that's not the lisp program though. I have something against
:> depending on exotic languages nowadays. :P
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:Exotic? Common Lisp is an iso standard!
:Doing such stuff in C is not really a good decision.
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:Andy
The problem with using languages like that is often that they require
significant infrastructure just to work. It's a big problem for a
package manager to have to have a dozen libraries and fifty megabytes
worth of packages installed before the package installer itself will
run. We've encountered this issue just trying to make 'cvsup' and
perl-driven programs work on multiple occassions.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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