On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> BTW, it is a missconception to say that Slackware has no package manager.
> Slackware has a package manager, those xxxxx.tgz are in fact binaries. And
> Slackware has a makepakage utility (I forgot the exact name). You can
> download the source tarball and make a slackware package with it with their
> makepackage utility. It may not be as refined as rpm or debian's, but with a
> little practice it's should be easy. Reading the Slackware 8 ANNOUNCE.TXT:
True. But the maturity and refinement is what makes a distro... a distro.
\8) I'm not knocking slackware down, really, i started on the 15 or so
Slackware floppy disks of Doc Mana way back in 1993, or was that 1992?
At the very least, a package management system must have data structures
to store:
applications, application-versions, application's dependencies,
application's files, each file's MD5 signature, and a flexible way of
automating the installation and upgrade process. It may be fun doing all
the commands in the keyboard, but after repeating the same commands over
and over again on a multitude of PCs, it gets quite boring...
Ian
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