-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/22/2010 07:19 AM, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote:
Now, you say it's preferable to use the native package manager where possible. I've got one word for you: Windows. You know, the most popular OS on the market? The one installed on 98% of all computers world-wide? Guess what: no native package manager.
Isn't Windows Installer (MSI) a package manager?
No, the Windows and OSX installers are just that. They provide no facilities for finding packages, identifying the package a given file came from, or dependency tracking. OSX's installer doesn't even have uninstall support; it records the installed files, but provides no mechanism for undoing configuration changes such as removing package-installed kernel modules. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxxTmoACgkQIn7hlCsL25VNsQCfZKJIz+KONa4yWAI97QYyttGU ITMAnjoAhcj3kMrWxnsSxWb5jraFBu1r =ERlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----