[wplug] Package Management

[Nate Sharadin]

I agree...what is more important-- semantics or coolness-factor. Being 
linux afficionados, I think we all know the answer to THAT question.

-Nate

--On Monday, June 17, 2002 5:28 PM -0400 Evan DiBiase <evand at wplug.org> 
wrote:r

> 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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