Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 09:18:09AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <dlitz@dlitz.net> writes:
>
> > So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager?
>
> I agree with Ethan. Start explaining why you want to reinvent the
> wheel then we maybe has some ideas for things to do when you
> reinventing for other reasons.
>
> The only feature I've ever tried designing a solution for (and mostly
> because on some interesting technical problems) is delta/diff packages
> where you only downloads the changes if that would take lesser time
> (by some measure).
Dwayne isn't necessarily trying to reinvent the wheel. He said that he wants
to build a single tool that does the jobs of all of the tools he listed.
Whether or not that is a good approach is debatable, but if the unified tool
uses shared code (i.e. libraries) from the other tools in order to do their
jobs, it at least shouldn't do the wrong thing for specific operations.
He is looking to build a new "package manager". I read this as "package
management tool", not as "package management system".
But I could be misunderstanding.
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- mdz
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