Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > >>> talks about common packages to install via pkg_radd so people don't have >>> to guess names. >> Directing them towards pkg_search should help, no? > > pkgin search > > pkgin upgrade > > pkgin list > > If pkgin doesn't work well for you, please report the problems.
Yah, I guess I should have mentioned pkgin. I have tried pkgin a few months ago and arrived to the conclusion that it is too dangerous to be let out of the lab. I no longer have the details around of course, but according to the irc logs what I run into was: "ask it to install package A which depends on B, it tries to install B, fails because an older version already exists, but goes on to force install A anyway!" After that I put it aside and strongly recommended people not to use it for now (I'm not the only one who has had very bad experiences with pkgin btw). This is hardly a corner case that can be shrugged off as a regular bug IMHO. It is imperative that the package manager give up rather than risk messing the system. That said, earlier today I started browsing through pkgin's source code and it looks very clean. I'll know more when I get to the interesting parts of course but it certainly looks like a tool we'd want to invest effort on. I just think it should display a big fat "This is ALPHA software" warning and not go on until the user acknowledges having read the warning :) Aggelos
