James Freer wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Can you say, "dependency hell"?
I suspect they wrote it on Ubuntu (this is client/server software, dunno why they'd do that). At any rate, I yum installed the postgresql 9.x
I don't think it is appropriate to be derogatory to other distros. Before yum there was 'dependency hell'. However, bear in mind apt-get is a
superior
package manager to yum... not my opinion but the opinion of many.
Let's see, where to begin to respond...
1. This *is* the CentOS list, last time I looked. We don't use apt-get. 2. A fair bit of the system software on ubuntu is several releases newer; therefore, anything written on the current release of that will not run on an enterprise distro for years. 3. Ubuntu is, as far as I can tell, targeted at the desktop user. It is *not* targeted for servers. 4. Finally, yum has nothing to do with this: it's all repo software, not how I get it.
Now, I AM most certainly derogatory about the developers. *Most* large organizations, and larger libraries, are *not* going to be running The Latest Ubuntu, with Unity, or whatever; that *is* who, by default, they're targeting. Now, if the software was intended for home users (and I need to implement a library system for my own library), that would be fine. But it's a bad idea for the actual target audience.
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