From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T06:21:03+09:00
Subject: Re: A Heartfelt Plea for a Universal Open Source Package Management System [was Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census]

Chris Carter wrote:

>>
> One of the big problems, and the reasons it may take so long for every
> package/OS distro to have every package is because every distro is
> different.  Debian may install packages in /usr/local, BSD may choose
> /opt, and every distro has their own requirements for packages.
> 

Asking for the One True Package Manager seems similar to asking for the 
One True Programming Language.

Be careful what you wish for.

-- 
James Britt

"Every object obscures another object."
    - Luis Bunuel