On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:02:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Another issue is how easy is it to set up multiple sources, so that if
> > one is broken or incomplete another is used, and so on. Easy with
> > apt, hard (or at least I couldn;t work out how to do it) with yast.
>
> So you are going to install some random binaries, packaged by some
> random person/s onto your machine because it's often easy and there
> are not lots of war stories .... good luck!!
Where I choose to get code from is my decision, not the package
manager's decision. I'm the guy who has hold of the on/off switch.
I'm the guy who is going to reinstall if the distro doesn't do what
I want (and easily). Lots of package managers seem to forget this.
> I built a system, used apt-get to install mythtv and 50M later had it
> working.
> I built a system, downloaded lame-src mythtv-src and the total footprint
> was 10M by the time it worked. Ummm 40M of 'something'!
apt tends to drag in anything that even smells related ("tv" rhymes with
"hippie" so you are going to need some hair-care programs with that).
I've noticed that most debian package authors tend to set dependencies
to be "everything that I have on my box right now" rather than thinking
carefully about what they really need. However, we were commenting
earlier about human nature and why it never really changes...
if the system makes it easy to just drag in every possible extra
package then thats what everyone is going to do because people always
do what is easy.
I think that the talk on Friday night should have a slot available
for "war stories" because that's where some of the real grist starts
to come out.
- Tel
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