Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.131.185.64]
on October 15, 2008 11:10 PM
Why is it that NO distro gets package management right? On openSUSE, if I want to install a package I have to sit through an update of all the repositories caches. If five minutes later, after exiting Yast, I decide I want to install another package, I have to go through the whole process again. Repository cache updates should be at the user's discretion.
Synaptic was good, but not perfect either. Last time I tried installing Java, the part where you have to acknowledge the Sun EULA was not accessible through the Synaptic interface, so the whole process collapsed. Apparently nobody realized that the package manager didn't allow you to respond to prompts from the downloaded packages.
Package management appears to be an very late afterthought in all distros - eye candy is apparently the most important aspect of most distros instead of QA, installation and package management, the three most important things a distro needs to get right.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.131.185.64] on October 15, 2008 11:10 PMSynaptic was good, but not perfect either. Last time I tried installing Java, the part where you have to acknowledge the Sun EULA was not accessible through the Synaptic interface, so the whole process collapsed. Apparently nobody realized that the package manager didn't allow you to respond to prompts from the downloaded packages.
Package management appears to be an very late afterthought in all distros - eye candy is apparently the most important aspect of most distros instead of QA, installation and package management, the three most important things a distro needs to get right.
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