[haiku-development] Re: Alpha-1 merging and status

  • From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:29:45 +0000

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 10:58:32 pm scott mc wrote:
> > +1 to a package manager. Any thoughts as to the handling of third party
> > packages though?
> >
> > A big issue I have with UNIX is the package managers can't really do much
> > in regards to third party packages, and then the package manager will
> > often complain about file conflicts, or overwrite important files (yes
> > I'm aware user packages belong in /usr or /opt, but not everyone seems to
> > be aware...)
> 
> Let's not change the subject of this thread.  The package manager has
> been discussed and has it's own wiki page now:
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagerIdeas

Okay, I wasn't aware. My bad.
> 
> -scottmc
> 

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