Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > If you feel you can talk about a potential PM candidate for LFS, please > write up a document that outlines the following: Slackware-like .tgz > - it's strengths and weaknesses + It is very simple, and everybody is expected to understand the code. - Out of the box, it

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:54:37 -0700 Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really do disagree with this stance. As an educative, as well as > > practical project, we should show at least one worked example. Just > > like we do with SysVInit and the bootscripts (which several of us > > d

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - It has a lot of legacy features that were oriented to the old > versions of autoconf (see, for example, how the %makeinstall macro > expands--BTW RedHat doesn't use this macro) Nobody uses this anymore, but it

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread taipan
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > The more we discuss it, the more PM becomes a focal point. > > We need a clearly defined list of pros, cons and technical explanations > plus their limitations of each viable choice - all the information that > a user needs to make an informed decision while keeping in m

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> I really do disagree with this stance. As an educative, as well as > practical project, we should show at least one worked example. Just > like we do with SysVInit and the bootscripts (which several of us > don't ever use any more). No one has to use the example, but the > example itself shows

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/3/5, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you feel you can talk about a potential PM candidate for LFS, please > write up a document that outlines the following: OK, deb--in my opinion, not a candidate at all. But let's have it just for comparison. > - it's strengths and weaknesses

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/3/5, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The more we discuss it, the more PM becomes a focal point. I agree with > Greg Schafer in that the actual choice of PM is a user's choice in the > end and shouldn't matter. Correct. > About all we should attempt to do is inform the user of all t

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > please ream my response *read LOL, and on that note, good night. -- DJ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-05 Thread DJ Lucas
TheOldFellow wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:11:53 -0700 > Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The more we discuss it, the more PM becomes a focal point. I agree with >> Greg Schafer in that the actual choice of PM is a user's choice in the >> end and shouldn't matter. >> >> About al

Re: Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-04 Thread TheOldFellow
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:11:53 -0700 Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The more we discuss it, the more PM becomes a focal point. I agree with > Greg Schafer in that the actual choice of PM is a user's choice in the > end and shouldn't matter. > > About all we should attempt to do is i

Package Management - technical comparisons

2008-03-04 Thread Gerard Beekmans
The more we discuss it, the more PM becomes a focal point. I agree with Greg Schafer in that the actual choice of PM is a user's choice in the end and shouldn't matter. About all we should attempt to do is inform the user of all the main stream and (perhaps) some of the not-so-mainstream option