[ale] apology... I am a moron

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Saying that something lacks package dependency checking and saying
something lacks package management altogether are two completely different
things.

Personally, however, I apparently don't need dependency checks at all.
I've happily managed my slackware systems just fine without it since
starting on Linux (with Slackware no less) almost a decade ago. I've also
never touched Swaret or slapt-get, though I hear they're quite good. The
only problem I ever had with Slackware's package management was easily
creating a package when installing from source, so that it may be easily
removed and/or upgraded when needed. Checkinstall has solved that sole
problem.

Thus, far from "impossible." Even far from "difficult." I'd venture to say
"pretty painless."

-- 
Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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Thus Spake jay <jloden at toughguy.net>:
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:49:55 -0500


> No,I think in that case, Warren was making a legitimate point. Slackware
> (tgz) packages have next to zero dependency information included in
> them, and are therefore extremely difficult (if not impossible) to
> create an effective package management solution for.  
> 
> For us Slackware fans, there's swaret and there's slapt-get, and more
> recently emerde.  None of the above are terribly fantastic.  slapt-get
> simply doesn't really do dependencies at all, swaret does - kind of -
> and emerde is still in beta and isn't quite there yet. 
> 
> Don't take this the wrong way, I love Slackware, and it's great, but
> it's still for all intents and purposes a one-man distro, there's
> limited package selection to begin with, and none of the package
> management systems are up to the level of apt-get or urpmi, at least not
> yet.  I imagine emerde could be, but I only ever succeeded  in hosing my
> slackware install with the version I tried, and I'm a little too
> impatient to wait 24 hours to download and compile updates on my 700mhz
> laptop.
> 
> -Jay
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 21:10, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> > You're still forgetting Slackware.
> 
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