[wplug] Package Management

[Nate Sharadin]

Guess I just tend to go with the traditional Webster on this one. :-)

-Nate

--On Monday, June 17, 2002 4:45 PM -0400 Zach Paine <zman at wplug.org> wrote:r

> Well, now that we are completely off topic.  According to WordNet,
> agnostic means uncertain of all claims of knowledge.  So in terms of
> APT's relationship to a package management system, apt does not need to
> know much about the system.  So in this case Mr. DiBiase used the word
> correctly.  On the other hand, Webster's 1913 defines agnostic as
> "neither affirming or denying the existence of a personal Diety", and
> while APT is rumored to have Super-Cow powers, this use of the word
> would not make much sense in the original context.  Guess it goes either
> way :)
>
> Zach
>
> On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 15:56, Nate Sharadin wrote:
>> "APT was designed to be (mostly) package-management-system-agnostic."
>>
>> You mean APT doesn't believe that there is proof that
>> package-management-systems can exist or cannot exist?
>>
>> Curiously,
>> -Nate Sharadin
>> nps5 at pitt.edu
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, June 17, 2002 11:58 AM -0400 Evan DiBiase <evand at wplug.org>
>> wrote:r
>>
>> > On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 11:26  AM, Doug Green wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hey all- can't you also install apt-get for RedHat? If so, does this
>> >> cause any problems, such as messing up the rpm database (ie: does rpm
>> >> "see" these packages too?).
>> >
>> > If you're using APT on RedHat, you're probably using RPM as the package
>> > management system (unless you're some sort of masochist). APT was
>> > designed to be (mostly) package-management-system-agnostic.
>> >
>> > -Evan
>> >
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