I certainly never said Debian's packages system is bad. In fact, I find it quite handy and efficient. I was just saying that Slackware's packaging system isn't as bad as everyone seems to think (IMHO). I've never had a problem with packages overwriting anything. I could see though, if you have package X version 1 installed and wanted package X version 2 installed and just when ahead and installed the later with installpkg, it would overwrite potentially important files. This is exactly the reason that the upgradepkg command was invented. In my experience, many haters of Slack's packaging system don't really know how to use it, and don't seem to want to even take the time. Not to say that you or Mike are one of those people, however. Gabe On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:16:27AM -0500, blutgens at sistina.com wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:01:19AM -0500, Gabe Turner wrote: > >> > > > >> about the Slackwareians, though ;-) > > > > Right... a tarball with a script is much to simple for RedHat's > > overly complicated vision of the world. Personally, I love Slacks > > packaging system... Doesn't get in the way of compiling from > > source. > > Yeah, I personally love the thought of a file overwriting my /etc/passwd with > something else without my knowledge. > > None of the packaging systems prevent you from building from source. Noone say > you can't set your make install path to /usr/local/my_source_installs_path or > whatever. The key difference is, if I am building something from source, and > make fails I can look at that and go "Hmm...o.k. $apt-get install > <missing-header-file>" rerun make and I am golden. > > > > > > >Gabe > > -- > Ben Lutgens Work: 612.379.5941 Cell: 651.387.9065 Home: 651.703.9541 > Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. http://www.globalfilesystem.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Ya lousy bum!" - Muddy Mudskipper in "Stimpy's Big Day" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org