Re: Upgrading without central packaging

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: Upgrading without central packaging
Date: 01:36 on 28 Apr 2005
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:12:52PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:15:12AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > Dependencies might be bad but ya know what's worse?
> 
> expanding dependencies.  like government, they never seem to get
> smaller.
> 
> there's a nifty tool in pkgsrc/ports called pkgdepgraph that traces
> through the (known registered) dependencies and spits out a directed
> graph to graphviz.  it always leaves me shaking my head.

Does BSD ports have a concept of a "recommends"?  "Its not required that you
install this but it sure would be useful".  ie. "perl recommends 
perl-documentation".  Any packaging system which does not is worthy of
hate.  This includes, but is not limited to, RPM and CPAN (as currently
implemented).

Debian has things so well sliced up that perl-base depends simply on
a grand total of libc6 which in turn depends on libdb1.  Everything else 
is "recommended" or "suggested", even the core modules and documentation.

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