On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:45:19AM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
You keep pimping aptitude like its a solution to the underlying
problem. It isn't. I'm quite sure that aptitude or something like it
is very handy for people who know what they are doing. For novice
users, I think such a set of tools will in fact cause an unacceptable
amount problems if the tools make no effort to make additional tests
such as file access which attempt to account for usage of the packages
which fall outside the strictly defined package mangement
relationships.
Since aptitude's interactivity/review give no
information as to out of package manager file access... a novice user
is given no information which can be used to warn them that the
packages in the list to be removed are in fact being used by something
the packager didn't expect. Aptitude or similar tool requires its
users to have a keen understanding of how packages are being used on
their own. And that sort of assumption is absolutely inappropriate for
a tool which people want to expose as a generally available feature
exposed to the entire fedora userbase.
I don't know what aptitude you are familiar with, but apparently it
isn't the same one I've used on a daily basis for six years or so.
It's an excellent front end to dpkg, which new users seem
to use as well. It's a shame you're so dismissive of it.
Really, when's the last time you used aptitude?
I really really hope the Ubuntu people figure out a way to track out
of package manager context file access which can account for prelink
activity as the integrate the feature into their desktop oriented
distro
<sigh> Ubuntu huh? If it is "the Ubuntu peopel" odds are it will be
a DD that Shuttleworth paid for.
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