http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/07/30/use-cases-for-package-management/ Blog about geeky stuff Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:13:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/07/30/use-cases-for-package-management/#comment-100 Anonymous Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:17:53 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/07/30/use-cases-for-package-management/#comment-100 Perfect way to go about this. Nice use cases. They aren't for package management though - I think the secret of package management is that nobody wants to do it. :-P instead they are trying to do something else and happen to have a missing package in the way. The closest thing to wanting to just "manage packages" might be looking for stuff to delete to free disk space. I guess "use cases that involve installing and uninstalling software" is a bit clunky ;-) For developers, two use cases are "get me the -devel package I'm missing that has foo.h in it" and "install all debuginfo for the gtk stack" Perfect way to go about this. Nice use cases. They aren't for package management though - I think the secret of package management is that nobody wants to do it. instead they are trying to do something else and happen to have a missing package in the way. The closest thing to wanting to just “manage packages” might be looking for stuff to delete to free disk space. I guess “use cases that involve installing and uninstalling software” is a bit clunky For developers, two use cases are “get me the -devel package I'm missing that has foo.h in it” and “install all debuginfo for the gtk stack”

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