[plug] re opening linuxconf

[Christian]

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:58:58PM +0800, Beau Kuiper wrote:
 >
> > There are some situations where installing by hand from source makes a
> > lot of sense.  But, for the most part, it makes a lot more sense to rely
> > on a well-tested and robust package management scheme.  To do otherwise
> > seems, at best, quaintly old-fashioned and, at worst, archaic and
> > fool-hardy.
> 
> Robust? Please. RPM can't even handle dependancies in a sane way.
> when you cancel an apt operation, it leaves its own database in tatters.

I'm not trying to make a case for RPM.  I've barely used it.

As for dpkg/apt, you're right that it can't completely solve problems
relating to user-error (and stupidity).  The only solution in your case
would be to ignore your attempts to stop it.  But then, no doubt, you'd
complain about this too.

> Package Management still has a way to go yet.

Sure.  But even as it is right now, it's still a very long way ahead of
doing it all by hand.

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