Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: >> (Mildly amusing sidenote to this discussion: I'm finally convincing the >> senior systems guy that Packages Are Good, and now developers for the >> upstream OS seem to be telling me Packages Are Useless, because I can't >> even count on a critical dependency being installed via the package >> system. <g>) > > ? I don't see that beeing said in the thread. Could you point out that > for me?
Hmm. Not explicitly stated, nor really implied, but several people commented that a system may have backported packages, packages from testing/unstable/experimental, software that's installed from source and which the package manager is therefore completely unaware of - in other words, no matter what you might find in /etc/debian_version or some other nominal reference, the configuration and binaries on the system may not resemble a stock install of that release at all. Taken to the extreme, that leads me to the conclusion that Packages Are Useless. <g> (Taken another couple of steps, it leads to "Everyone should be running Linux From Scratch".) (I don't really think so, and I think the argument about "The local admin may hack the system up until it resembles Swiss cheese so why bother doing <x>" has been beaten well beyond death in other threads I've seen recently.) Mostly just an impression I got from the trend of some of the responses. -kgd, wondering how one would go about bootstrapping LFS raw from a stack of printout and a single modern desktop machine, with no source of precompiled executables. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
