Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> Yes. Note that I have not evaluated pacman. > > Do you by chance have any plans or desire to do so in the near future?
Not in the nearest future--too busy with bureaucracy that surrounds presenting the dissertation (scheduled for July, 3). >> What's even more important for educational purposes, Debian rules are >> incoherent >> between various Debian packages. > > How does RPM differ in that regard? Couldn't RPM spec files (in theory?) > suffer from the same problem depending on who writes them? RPM doesn't have this amount of additional layers of almost-mandatory helpers for getting dependencies right, and the "debconf" tool for interactive package configuration. As I said, a few Debian packagers do things by hand, some use debhelper, some call cdbs (that doesn't even contain the explicit build instructions, but is suitable only for simple CMMI-like packages), and there are other options. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
