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I got one for "MINIX 3 is a new reliable - www.minix3.org - free operating system. Smaller than Linux. Try it. It's free!" wonder what kinda package manager it uses. On 11/6/06, Bill Page <bill.page@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > You may or may not be interested in google's "Sponsored Link" > > Boot.ini - PCbeginner.com - Fix It Yourself. Easy for PC Beginner! > > Thanks, evil robots reading my mail! > > On 11/6/06, Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Yum. The Fedora package manager. Feature of hates past and surely > > hates future. Today, it is my hate. > > > > A Linux distribution has many thousands of files. Nevertheless, they > > are generally organised in reasonable groupings [1]. Yum, however, has > > its configuration files organised as follows: > > > > /etc > > |-- yum > > | |-- pluginconf.d > > | | `-- installonlyn.conf > > | `-- yum-daily.yum > > |-- yum.conf > > |-- yum.conf.bak > > `-- yum.repos.d > > |-- atrpms.repo > > |-- dag.repo > > |-- dries.repo > > ... > > > > Yes, although there is an /etc/yum directory, the yum.conf file (_and_ > > backup copy) float next to it in /etc itself; and then there is > > _another_ directory, /etc/yum.repos.d, wherein yum's knowledge of > > repositories resides. The net result is that I can't easily > > tab-complete the path to various parts of the yum config and have to > > remember how it's arranged, which is fucking stupid. Would it have > > been _too_ hard for whatever team of monkeys filled with crack it is > > that writes this application to have put everything in /etc/yum? IS > > THAT TOO FUCKING OBVIOUS FOR YOU? > > > > Talking of /etc/yum.repos.d (proof of my point: my fingers just tried > > to type /etc/yum/repos.d), it contains one file per repository, > > because they are written in what appears to be .ini format and are > > INCREDIBLY VERBOSE. Here's a snippet: > > > > [core] > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch > > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever > > enabled=1 > > gpgcheck=1 > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > > file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > > > > Yes, it's doing some kind of crap involving interpolation of variables > > from who-knows-where. Note the nice use of an "enabled" flag, but also > > a line being commented out. What does that mean? I haven't got a clue. > > But what I do know is that you're fucked if you expect to be able to > > add repositories with a single line of text, apt-style. CRAP FOUNTAIN. > > > > > > [1] Or not? Place your hates now! > > > > -- > > Earle Martin > > http://downlode.org/ > > http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/ > > >There's stuff above here
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