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Re: Guidelines for talking about Xcode 2.5 on this list


  • Subject: Re: Guidelines for talking about Xcode 2.5 on this list
  • From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:57:17 +0200


On 31 Aug 2007, at 10:46, Michael Wild wrote:

<rant>
To be honest, these issues are among the few things that really might turn me away from Mac OS X. You guys at Apple call this "world’s most advanced operating system"?! Then why is there no proper package management? Why doesn't a .pkg know which files it installed?

It does.

Why isn't there a tool for listing all the installed packages?

ls /Library/Receipts

Why can't I look up the files a package installed,

lsbom /Library/Receipts/SomePackage.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom

That said, it'd be really, really nice if packages could be uninstalled without something like

lsbom -pF /Library/Receipts/SomePackage.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom | sudo xargs rm -f

(which still does not remove directories which are now empty due to them being specific to this program, which does not remove files created by the postflight or other scripts, etc)


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