Re: Guidelines for talking about Xcode 2.5 on this list
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).
Michael
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