Poll about package management
Bruce Dubbs
bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 09:23:01 MST 2008
TheOldFellow wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:30:50 +1100
> Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip.com.au> wrote:
> <snip> Having said that, I believe
>> PM should be a personal thing, which is why I would never advise anyone
>> "you must XYZ as your PM". ie: I would never select a default PM for LFS.
>
> On the other hand, being of the educative-objective brigade, there's no
> harm in showing a fully worked example. That's how I always view
> SysVinit and the bootscripts in LFS. Maybe using Pacman as the example
> would be better that RPM, given many people's (inexplicable, IMO)
> antipathy to RedHat.
Excellent point. This has caused me to change my mind about including
PM in the book. However, I'll probably not use it myself.
-- Bruce
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