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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: Michael Wild <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:39:12 +0200

Jonas Maebe wrote:

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

[snip]

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

Now THAT at least is some good news... But how is one to find out about that stuff except by ranting on a mail-group? ;-)



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


ugly, but aparently all we can hope for...

(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)

worse



Jonas

So, this leaves us with a half-baked package system which goes only half of the way (thinking of uninstalling, diversions, conflict/dependency resolution, ...)


I must say, that feature-wise the fink project got the right idea. On the other hand, I do not think it integrates with the OS X system particularly well. MacPorts is better in this respect, but the underlying package system is imho inferior to dpkg used by fink. And around 50% of their packages are orphaned, they do not have a graphical user interface and the system is comparatively slow.

Well, lets see what the future brings and hope that one day Mac OS X really will be the most advanced operating system (in all aspects).


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