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: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:50:11 -0400
Since Apple recommends using drag-and-drop installations, where any
support files are generated on first-run, package management is a moot
point for most user-level applications.
--Kyle Sluder
On 8/31/07, Michael Wild <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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