On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 at 14:46, Ian C. Sison wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, -JhAzEr- wrote: > > > pretty good observation! i agree with you. but in terms of > > dependencies, i think it's not appropriate to say that it lacks it. > > Slackware's philosophy is simplicity and ease of use. let's say for > > example you're building gnome from tarballs. you'll notice that > > dependencies for building gnome are quite minimal compared to other > > distros. that's the difference between pkgtool and rpm. rpm was built > > to track down those dependencies while pkgtool was designed to > > simplistically allow you to build it with ease based on those minimal > > dependencies. ;) > > Then you're not advocating the use of pkgtool over rpm/deb. You're > advocating minimialist packaging versus cohesive/integrated packaging. > You can do minimalist packaging in RPM/DEB if you wanted to, and there are > RPM based distros out there that do exactly that.
neither of the two! i just want to explain why pkgtool hasn't gone the rpm way of handling packages. because you don't need a dependency tracker if you've only got a handful of dependencies to tinker with just to be able to install a certain program from the tarballs. ;) Slackware 9.0 Beta ------------------------------ pub 1024D/04BAE461 2002-10-22 -JhAzEr- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/63BA0ABD 2002-10-22 Mobile Phone: 0920-2625725 Window Manager ---> Ratpoison-1.1.1 Email Client ---> Pygmy-0.6.0 Web Browser ---> Phoenix-0.5 (Naples) [gcc-3.2] [gnupg-1.2.0] [gpgme-0.3.9] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
