[linux-elitists] Gentoo, linux users too can be racers

[Nathaniel Smith]

Jeff, please stop reading my mind.  Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:38:52PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="James Sparenberg">
> 
> > 3.  RPM and deb both need a logical "OR" for dependencies.  (deb may have
> > a crude form)
> 
> How much ORier do you need your OR to be? Depends: package1 | package2 (and
> may involve version number differences)...
> 
> > 4.  Forced removal of packages I want to keep.  Debian is the worst here.
> > I install X that requires Y and Z ... later when I remove X it says that Y
> > and Z are orphaned and need to be removed ... Ubuntu variant of Debian
> > gets real insistant that I remove Y and Z.  I want to keep them so I have
> > to remove them.... and then re-install them Once I do debian says "Ok they
> > aren't part of a dependency chain they are ok.  *sigh*
> 
> If you avoid aptitude or apt-get autoremove, the implicit dependency
> tracking is never invoked. That said, it's an extremely handy feature, and
> very easy to adapt to if you are in that situation.
> 
> > 5. Forced dependencies.  Were there is no real dependency (like a lib) but
> > instead it's "Well people who like X also want Y and Z.) Yes I want a text
> > editor and no I don't want a full office suite.  Why can't I install a
> > word processor without a full office suite.
> 
> You can. For instance, Abiword. Or you can suck up the damage of the rather
> large OOo Writer package and dependencies, which is entirely an upstream
> issue (OOo has a huge amount of somewhat shared code, and no one has teased
> it apart yet), not a packaging issue.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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