On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:58, Janne Karhunen wrote:
On Monday 01 January 2007 21:55, Mark Goldstein wrote:
I've installed smart (smart-0.49.1-40.guru.suse102) and almost immediately bumped into the following situation: it indicates that there is upgrade for amarok but fails to perform upgrade:
I have been wondering if package managers as we know them today can never be proper solution to software installation. If people are to use it, it needs to be better and easier than 'setup.exe'.
Is it really possible to perfectly hide overly complex package dependencies with complex tools around it? It doesn't seem that way yet. Package managers have been 'almost there' for a decade now.
IMO, don't use dependencies. If you're program/application requires a dependency, then provide it in the package. You can easily write an installation routine to check if the required libraries are present and then install them in a sub-folder of your application if they're not. I'm still not quite sure where SUSE stores programs - it seems some are in /etc/bin, others in /usr/bin and still others in /opt/kde3/bin. -- kai - theperfectreign@yahoo.com www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org