Re: [HACKERS] rpms

At 4:39 AM -0800 3/3/00, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
>Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> el día Thu, 02 Mar 2000
>16:38:23 +0000, escribió:
>
>>> Why not just name the packages postgresql-server and postgresql-client
>[...]
>>That is possible. imho it is solving a "problem" with no clear benefit
>>in the end, so why bother? Just renaming packages doesn't, by name
>>alone, clarify which packages depend on others, doesn't clarify that
>>-server depends on -client, etc etc.
>
>sorry to be picky thomas, but if the name has almost no mean
>(as you imply) then why not call the package "pirindonga" ?

I live in NetBSD-land where the package system must be a bit different.
(It's based on FreeBSD ports.) You can do a pkg_info and get a nice, short
summary of the package contents including the dependencies. For example
TeX comes in about 5 packages and it wasn't at all hard for me to figure
out that I needed all but one of them. If you install the package it will
automatically install any packages it depends on. Dependencies can be
wild-carded so a package will accept a prerequisite package that is newer
than required and so on.

Do I take it that RedHat packages are not this nice? Or is there some
subtlety to this discussion I'm missing? Isn't there some convention for
how these things are handled already?

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