Our package system: "Fundamentally Flawed" - A Linux User.

[epilogue]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:09:28 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at tensor.3miasto.net> wrote:

> > a different library name) like it should, pkg_add only gives a warning
> > and an assumption that the install went well.
> >
> > Now, the user goes to run the package and gets a big fat error:
> > libintl.so.X not found.
> 
> package 0.13 should be compatible with 0.12 or should has name 1.*
> 
> anyway - in 99.99% times
> ln -s libintl.so.X libintl.so.Y where Y is required number
> works :)

another fix to this problem is to issue pkgdb -fu, then indicate for the
program to depend on whatever collections you have installed.

> >
> > For a user like myself, this is no problem. I can recognize the error
> > and figure out how to fix it manually. For a user considering switching
> > to FreeBSD from Linux, this is considered a "fundamental flaw" in our
> > package system and may lead to a very annoying flame war. Can this be
> > fixed? Why hasn't it been fixed?

i prefer this to consider this simply a different solution to a similar
problem.  when i bump into comments like this, i generally like to provide
a link which (i think) very well outlines many of the important design
differences between freebsd and linux.

http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php

it might seem a tad long, but it is a rewarding read.  highly recommended.

hope that this helps to dispel any misconceptions you may have.


cheers,
epi

p.s. obviously any system (yes, even linux and bsd) can be improved.  the
question of _what_ to improve often boils down to 'how' (different
solutions bring different trade-offs) and 'for what investment of time and
energy' (not everything is equally urgent).

> war requires 2 sides to fight. simplest way to avoid is ignore them.
> 
> no one forces linux user to go to FreeBSD or otherBSD.
> 
> 
> 2 years ago mostly because linux started "the only right" solution and to
> be "better than windows" i switched to NetBSD. and found that this said
> to be worse *BSD are actually better.
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