Re: Hating up2date

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From: Greg McCarroll
Subject: Re: Hating up2date
Date: 03:43 on 24 Oct 2006
On 24 Oct 2006, at 03:11, Sean Conner wrote:

>   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

My favourite version of this hate is 'dig' on Debian, it's a popular  
program,
so in the fucked up crazy world i'd live in, i'd expect

	apt-get install dig

to work. but of course ...

	E: Couldn't find package dig

now I really wouldn't mind if dig wasn't the package name but someone  
had say
made dig an alias to the right package.

however i seem to recall that dig was part of bind and has been  
released under
bindtools on some platform. (i'll skip the apt-get line and the  
inevitable
E: line).

of course its actually under dnsutils. oh and if you are looking for  
traceroute,
don't bother looking under pingutils or netutils - traceroute is  
available as
traceroute, you see they like to set you up good and proper before  
they roger
you.

G.

p.s. and lets not even go into the pain that is trying to use CPAN  
and a package
manager.
p.p.s. if the above leads into a 'perl sucks' thread, so help me i'll  
make the
culprits use more software as punishment ;-).



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