DPS Initial Ideas

[Mike Meyer]

In <861whigyua.fsf at dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> typed:
> Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> > Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:
> > [Linux package systems]
> > > As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all. In
> > > fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for them.
> > This pretty much rules them out then.
> It would, if it were true.  It isn't.

Except it is.

> apt-get --build source package_name

That doesn't update from sources, that just builds a package. You're
still stuck updating from packages.

Further, like the rpm command, this doesn't deal with dependencies,
other than to complain if they aren't met. This means that using it to
deal with sources is about as pleasant as using rpm to install binary
packages.  Further, there doesn't appear to be anything like make.conf
to make it easy to tailor the build process to meet the users
requirements.

	<mike
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