package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich Payne hath spake thusly: RedHat user, both have their advatages and disadvantages and one of the advantages of Debian is that the packaging system is a little bit ahead of RedHat (nothing that can't be fixed with

Re: package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread bscott
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, at 12:20pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: Missing from both right now, I think, is the ability to say that a particular package is recommended, but not required (does dpkg do this?) Debian's system does do this. A package can be Required, Recommended, or Suggested. It is very

Re: package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, at 12:20pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: Missing from both right now, I think, is the ability to say that a particular package is recommended, but not required (does dpkg