Re: Easy Installs

["Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@nts.umn.edu>]

'sokay.

The advantage to package management systems, as I see it, is that they
provide a database of dependancies, installed files, etc.  If I want to
install the latest GIMP, for example, I may need to know what libraries
(and versions of those) it requires.  Perhaps I need to upgrade a library. 
Perhaps some other software product on my system doen't work with the new
library and will also need to be upgraded.  Then, what do I do when I want
to *remove* something.  How do I know which files may safely be removed? 

Package managers are just a database application.

Chris -)-----

> Christopher R. Hertel <crh@nts.umn.edu> wrote:
> >In the context of "were we to use a different system what do you think of 
> >RPMs" I respond "I like DEBs better".
> 
> My apologies.  Ultimately, though, I have yet to see the advantage to any
> of these sytems.  Am I the only one?
> 
> - d.
> 


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