linux = impossible? (no offense meant!)

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:58:37PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> > Well clearly you have never seen a decent package manager in action.
>
> It doesn't matter if the best package manager in the world is easier to
> use than Windows installation programs.  It simply won't fly if it
> doesn't fit people perceptions of how things should be done.  These
> days, people think you obtain a piece of software (either in a store or
> by downloading it) and run an installer.  That will never work under
> Linux because of dependencies.

Wrong. It is possible to make an installer call the local package manager.
I have done this (even with slackware). It works.

Peter
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