On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:30:10AM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > including insulting you when you type stupid commands. But you don't > have the right to insult people because you are pissed for not being > clever enough of looking for dependencies before installing a package by > hand using dpkg, which is a low level aimed for admins util, and for not > keeping a backup of old package.
There is no way to use -source packages without using dpkg. Some people here have offered alternatives, and I was just asking for alternatives, and got stoned silence. You for example didn't tell me a thing except "lump it." But I get it now: dpkg is no smarter than rpm. Lots of people don't like RPM based distros because they break. I might point out that source packages by design expect you to use dpkg so by conclusion people aren't going to like them any more than they like RPM-based distros. I understand foo-source not Depending on foo-utils. I do not understand foo-source not Suggesting foo-utils, or something like foo-source-installable depending on foo-source and foo-utils.
