From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 17:04:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBD716A50F for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from omr9.networksolutionsemail.com (omr9.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC6113C46E for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com (ns-omr9.mgt.hosting.dc2.netsol.com [10.49.6.72]) by omr9.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l3JH4LUR018692 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:04:21 -0400 Received: (qmail 5013 invoked by uid 78); 19 Apr 2007 17:04:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.77?) (racerx@makeworld.com@63.85.253.50) by ns-omr9.lb.hosting.dc2.netsol.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2007 17:04:21 -0000 Message-ID: <4627A10F.4030305@makeworld.com> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:04:15 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henry Lenzi References: <1176551927.6799.9.camel@FreeBSD.localhost> <8b4c81f0704190933m6a34fcek98a391d7f0325bb1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0704190933m6a34fcek98a391d7f0325bb1@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: id=C01BC363 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:04:23 -0000 Henry Lenzi wrote: > I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily > dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity > on top of a problem that was *already solved* in the Unix world, by > using Make files. Do they have a better backtracking algorithm then > Make? No. I don't understand this at all. Assuming that Ubuntu's package management is nearly the same as Debian's (by means of apt-get etc.) then how do you figure it's heavily dependent on human intervention? Perhaps you have portupgrade (that happens to be fairly intense when it comes to human input and or intervention) confused with apt-get and or apt-get upgrade/update? If you are not confused, then perhaps the version of Debian or Ubuntu was in it's infancy stages? > Debian's package management is the number one cause that distro just > got slower and slower in their release cycle. Interesting - so, the semi annual (of course this means 2 times a year) release of say Ubuntu isn't in line with say, OpenBSD or even FreeBSD (when they manage to push our 2 releases in a year). Base on what you have stated - you either used a very old version of Debian or a very old version of Ubuntu. Then again, there is always the notion that you may not have used any of the above and are just talking out your keister ;) > Henry Lenzi -- Best regards, Chris BOFH excuse #174: Backbone adjustment