APT-GET is rabbit-dung ... please confirm/deny

[Markus Deistler]

Hi,
Hi,

Bernard Mentink wrote:

> Ok, but I could not un-install the old Ghostscript without doing a -nodep=
s,

I once had to recompile gs very often so I happily --nodeps-removed the
gs-rpm and installed from source. I know that there is a whole in the
deps-tree now (a handful viewers and nearly every printing system relies on
gs), but who cares? Any gs-dependent software looks for gs in the
default-PATHs, not in the rpm-database.

The real problem occurs in the next upgrade-session. "Apt" is somehow
patronizing ... I was using apt with a Debian-install for while (btw. when
did the rpm-based-distromakers "steal" apt from Debian and add rpm-support
to that software), and I know that apt might be quite stubborn if it detect=
s
such a whole in the dependencies-tree.

Maybe the concept of packetmanagers like dpkg/rpm which manage
prebuilt-binaries more or less doomed anyway, at least for smaller
platforms. In order to stay really current on a PPC I have to install from
source very often, because YDL and others lag behind. That's why I seriousl=
y
think on trying Gentoo-Linux, which follows a BSD-like
meta-distribution-approach.

Markus


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