Re: GNU System Explanation

[Barry deFreese]

This didn't seem to go through the first time??

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)
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From: "Barry deFreese" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: GNU System Explanation


> Folks,
>
> Can someone please give me a concise explanation of what the intended 
> goals are here?
>
> I understand that you want packages isolation in /packages, but why? 
> Managing multiple versions of a package could potentially become a 
> headache I believe.
>
> For example:  I have /packages/foo-1.1/bin/foo  and /lib/libfoo.  Then I 
> install foo-1.2 which has /packages/foo-1.2/bin/foo and /lib/libfoo, 
> foo-1.1 becomes pretty much unusable anyway, does it not?
>
> I also understand that you have philosophical differences with Debian. 
> Fine, but Debian provides a nice set of tools for package management when 
> dealing with things like dependencies, reverse dependencies, etc.  Yes, it 
> would be nice to be able to use common filesystem commands to install and 
> manage packages but is it realistic? If I extract foo-1.1.tar.gz to 
> /packages/foo but foo needs bar to run now what?  OK, so I extract 
> bar-1.0.tar.gz to /packages/bar.  But now I install baz which also depends 
> on bar, there becomes 1 to many and potentially many to 1 relationships of 
> packages.
>
> What do people see as currently wrong with dpkg other than being Debian 
> and a little cumbersome for developers?
>
> Can someone please enlighten me?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)