POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: This is why Windows doesn't need a package manager: Re: This is why Windows doesn't need a package manager

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : This is why Windows doesn't need a package manager : Re: This is why Windows doesn't need a package manager		Server Time 7 Sep 2024 03:20:27 EDT (-0400)

From: Sabrina Kilian
Date: 17 Aug 2008 22:39:55
Message: <48a8e0fb$1@news.povray.org>

Darren New wrote:
> http://blog.angulosolido.pt/2008/08/firefox-3-gtk-210-horror-show-open.html
> 
> And this is the sort of thing that RPMs don't do for you that the 
> Singularity thing does (and more):
> 
> http://www.linux.com/feature/144170
> 

So, the goal of a package manager is to have just the packages you need 
installed, and keep the upstream developer from having to include all 
the libraries they and everyone else use in each package, and it fails 
because it does exactly that?

It seemed like the guy might have had a good complaint of 'Mozilla 
shouldn't use GTK 2.10.6, and should have used 2.6' except that they 
probably would have if they could. Maybe he should really be complaining 
about how these 'long use, stable libraries' keep having updates. Why 
won't those developers just leave it alone!

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