[wplug] Package Management

[Evan DiBiase]

On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 04:50  PM, Nate Sharadin wrote:

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

As a fellow language enthusiast, I can definitely see your position. 
I've always heard apt described as "package-management-system-agnostic," 
though, and it sounds a far sight cooler than "APT doesn't care which 
package management system you use." ;-)

-Evan

> --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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