On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:36:50PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > dpkg doesn't do this because this isn't how dpkg works -- people wrote a > higher-level tool, apt, to do that. People ignoring error messages from > their package manager, breaking their system's network interface, and > blaming the Debian maintainer are something of an edge case that isn't worth > dealing with.
So why does apt exist? I mean, if people weren't such complete damn morons they'd simply eyeball all the dependencies they need and make sure they have them. Stupid people! For that matter, why does a package even bother listing its dependencies in a programmic way at all? Surely them stupid idiots can just read the README. Maybe the problem is that by design people are forced to use dpkg in this situation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
