Re: Hating up2date

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From: Sean Conner
Subject: Re: Hating up2date
Date: 03:11 on 24 Oct 2006
It was thus said that the Great seph once stated:
> Martin Ebourne <lists@xxxxxxx.xx.xx> writes:
> 
> > Fortunately even Redhat know that up2date is the worst package manager
> > lookalike ever conceived for a non MS platform. Hence they've killed it
> > and written a new thing. At least on fedora anyhow, don't know what the
> > paying customers are getting this time around.
> 
> Wait, are you trying to hold yum up as not-hateful? It's awful,
> possibly even worse than up2date. I don't know any package manger from
> redhat or fedora that isn't wretched.

  apt-get, emerge, yum, ports, they're all hateful.  

	GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobar
	Sorry, I can't find that package.

What?  I can't just use the generic name by which *everybody* calls it to
get the latest and greatest?  No no nooooo!  I have to search through the
database to find the *exact* version string you compare against.

	GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobard-stable-4.3.2.4.x86.bin

That is, if I bothered to keep the package databases up-to-date.  For
instance:

	GenericGentooPrompt> emerge foobar
	Sorry, you neglected to update emerge in the past 20 minutes.  Please
	upgrade emerge.
	GenericGentooPromp> emerge update emerge
	Sorry, I can't find any repositories for your decripit, ancient and
	otherwise unsupported version from 2 days ago.  What?  You neglected
	to emerge for more than 20 minutes?  Muahahahahahahahahaha! 
	Sucka!!!!!!!!  l10o0o0o0o0o0o0o053r!!!!!!!!

  Hate.  

  -spc (pure unadulterated hate for package managers, only exceeded by the
	blinding hate for dependancy hell nowadays)

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