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Why I Hate Blastwave's Package Manager

Tue Mar 20 15:47:12 PDT 2007

  • When running in upgrade mode, there's no way to turn off endless repetitions of "Do you want to remove this package?" Since I asked you to upgrade, the answer is yes.

  • Amusingly different names for packages depending on the context:

$ pkg-get foo
Can't install foo; need newer version of libbar.
$ pkg-get libbar
No such package.
$ pkg-get -a |grep bar
Barlib          The libraries of bar.
  • Hidden abilities, like the ability to upgrade selectively if you want. Whee — doesn't say so, but pkg-get -u foo does work. Supported? Who knows?

(Edit: corrected name of Blastwave's package manager. So much for the moral high ground…:-)

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