Speaking of rambling, here are some of mine - hope I don't offend anyone. There is a package called ezrpm that automates dependency checking and fullfillment. This should do for Linux what pkg_add does for Debian. I have not gotten finished with the task of making it work, though it is on my "to do" list.
One thing to bear in mind about RPMs and other package management techniques is that they automate machine configuration. If someone does scripted builds of a linux/BSD/whatever distribution that is configured at installation time via a package manager (e.g., RedHat, Mandrake, and I believe Debian and Slackware as well...), then by eliminating packages you are eliminating automated installation of Unicon on their system; this does not make sense if your objective is (as I hope that it is) world domination by Unicon. One alternative that might be worth exploring is releasing packages that would, when installed, automate with a single command installation of Unicon for a given platform. This might be even better if there were and root-disableable switch that allowed an ordinary user, rather than root, to build, install, and run Unicon in their own home directory (if automated installation were by root, the switch would be disabled because Unicon would be generally available). I personally find it very annoying when I cannot install software for my own use because I don't happen to have root access to a particular machine; others may argue (successfully), "then why don't you simply cd ~ tar xzf unicon-10.1-binaries.tar.gz cd unicon-10.1-binaries ./configure make make install ". If that works when I'm not root, I can live with it. If I need to be root, then I'm stuck hoping that user-mode-linux <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net> is supported on the machine that I'm working on. -----Original Message----- From: Rev. Shamim Mohamed D.D. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/12/02 2:03 AM Subject: Re: [Unicon-group] RPMs > [Shamim writes about removing destroying our obsolete RPM's and > eliminating plans to provide RPM's in the future.] <extract> <snip/> Brief *BSD plug: in contrast, if I set the env. variable PKG_PATH to a URL that has binaries (the *BSD equivalent of rpmfind.net) I can just say "pkg_add -v ${PKG_PATH}/package-name" - it will recursively install all dependencies. Something like debian's apt-get but even better, because packages and ports [built from source] know about each other so I can have a random mix of things installed as binaries and things I compiled myself. <snip/> </extract> _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
