In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter S
Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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>robert w hall wrote:
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>> what are dependencies? :-)
>>
>> there's a package adding, listing and removing tool -
>> twas good enough for my grandaddy why not for us now?
>
>Earlier today, I upgraded galeon by doing:
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># apt-get install galeon
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(I respond to this thread with some trepidation 'cos we're getting
horribly OT, but)
underneath all this joshing there is a serious point:-
Slack with its 'non'-packaging and other lack of 'advanced' features
encourages an intelligent and flexible approach to installation and use.
I doubt that a dependencies-based package manager (eg rpm with deps
enabled) would ever for example let you install win4lin on a tiny
slack4.0 system (libc5-based) - where I'm using libc2.0.7pre6 as the
glibc library!
Without such flexibility we're all condemned ultimately to blindly
install larger and larger suites on bigger and bigger machines - the
microsoft mindset revisited
Bob
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robert w hall
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