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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Mark Stone <mark.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2011/7/19 Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> dpkg and rpm are (IMO) low-level tools that most users should not be
>> using. The high-level ones are apt-get and yum. The high-level UI is
>> the most important one.
>>
>> Olaf
>>
>
> I have a lot more experience with dpkg/apt than anything else, but I
> have to disagree here. 90% of the time users are only going to be
> dealing with apt, and even then it will be hidden behind a GUI like
> synaptic. But certainly there are times when you want a package that
> isn't in a repository, and where the developer has at least gone to
> the trouble of making a package out of it. In these cases at least
> you're going to be using dpkg directly.

Right. IMO that's a gap in the functioanlity provided by the pkg
management. Coapp should ensure it doesn't have such a gap.
Installing packages from non-default repositories should be easy, such
that stuff like auto-updates continue to work.


Olaf