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What Package Management Features Do You Value?
0x0d0a asks: "Slashdot has now had a number of articles on package management. Strong opinions about the management approaches of Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, and BSD have all been expressed, some quite negative. What suggestions do you have for improvement? What features do you value in a package management system, and in what areas would you like to see additional functionality?"
it has to be easy in overall.
easy to install stuff the first time(type one line or press one button and it'll figure out the rest).
easy to remove that stuff without it leaving other stuff unworking.
easy to keep up-to-date.
well.. apt-get fits this bill at the moment for me.. i don't care much of compile-locally-optimized-whizmo jizmos.. nor don't i think that downloading binaries from debian is a security concern anymore than downloading sources through some portage system(heck, i'm wouldnt check the source anyways).
and i find dselect comfortable to use and easy to find software from..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It has to detect if the libraries it needs have the same functionality as the newer ones I have. Needing version .40 of a library and not accepting library version .50 if it works the same as version .40. My perfect package manager wouldn't take many hours of frustration to make your own packages. :)
The Debian Policy manual is the reason behind apt-get's magic.