From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T06:23:18+09:00
Subject: Re: A Heartfelt Plea for a Universal Open Source Package Management System [was Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census]

On 1/13/07, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

Don't worry, I like both gems and deb and I wouldn't want to be stuck
with just one.


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Chris Carter
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