On Wed, April 9, 2008 12:41 am, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:49 PM 4/8/2008 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>>On Tue, April 8, 2008 9:37 pm, Ben Finney
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:37:07 +1000
>> > From: Ben Finney <[EMAI
ges and record the installation (as was previously done by
third party programs) to facilitate clean removal. Unless you can perform
more of the other functions I listed above, I doubt I would call
add/remove a package manager.
Stan Klein
On Wed, April 9, 2008 1:23 pm, Paul Moore wrote:
> O
On Wed, April 9, 2008 3:19 pm, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>> The rpm and deb package managers (and their yum and other higher level
>> dependency managers) do a lot of things:
>
>> 1. They install packages a
On Wed, April 9, 2008 3:40 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:52 AM 4/9/2008 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>>However, are you implying that the installation information for Python
>> egg
>>packages accesses and coordinates with the rpm database?
>
> Yes, when the inf
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 18:17 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
> I think I can sum up any further points by simply asking: "Should it
> be safe to assume I can distribute my application via eggs /
> easy_install just because it is written in Python?"
I think that based on this discussion the bottom li
