On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:58, Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 21:55, Mark Goldstein wrote: > > I've installed smart (smart-0.49.1-40.guru.suse102) and almost > > immediately bumped into the following situation: it indicates that > > there is upgrade for amarok but fails to perform upgrade: > > I have been wondering if package managers as we know them today > can never be proper solution to software installation. If people > are to use it, it needs to be better and easier than 'setup.exe'. > > Is it really possible to perfectly hide overly complex package > dependencies with complex tools around it? It doesn't seem that > way yet. Package managers have been 'almost there' for a decade > now.
IMO, don't use dependencies. If you're program/application requires a dependency, then provide it in the package. You can easily write an installation routine to check if the required libraries are present and then install them in a sub-folder of your application if they're not. I'm still not quite sure where SUSE stores programs - it seems some are in /etc/bin, others in /usr/bin and still others in /opt/kde3/bin. -- kai - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
