On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: >-- snip > When i tested Redhat this was one of the most definitive turn offs. > One needed to have X11 up and running to have access to a rather > strange package management frontend. Actually dselect is terrible in > ergonomic terms and intuitive usage but at least it works and does > it's job far better than this RPM frontend under X11. And it even > works well when you take the time to read the documentation to get > aquainted with it's somewhat awkward handling. I even began to like > it to some degree. But then there is SuSE... > Reasonable people can differ about the merits of the installation and maintenance procedures, and Unix is richer for having several choices. The real issue is adhering to a common file system layout. I would like to see the day when a single binary package can be installed on Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Slackeware FBSD, etc; The binary package should come with its own uninstall script. The issue of GUI's, administrative interfaces, etc. is IMHO much less important. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
