Re: [OT] Scripts, packages, etc.

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:28:18 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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"D. J. Bernstein" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also want a package manager to be able to automatically figure out
> that a dependency needs to be upgraded. The ``alternatives'' system
> doesn't do any of this correctly.

To be fair, /etc/alternatives is only one part of Debian's package
management system.  Other parts do detect when a dependency needs to
be upgraded, AFAIK.

paul