Leenucks
January 1, 2006
Gur. I’d forgotten what a pain in the ass it is to get anything working under Linux. I want to install one silly app and the requirements become a strawman diagram. :\
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but… linux is better for desktop usage than windows! Everyone knows this!
That’s why everyone should install linux on their parents and grandparents’ machines!
ehehe… I see a long night ahead of me, leaning over an arcade game with a console on the bench a few feet away. :\
Slackware is horrendous in this respect.
Debian is your friend. apt-get is the bestest package management tool yet.
That doesn’t solve the problem of not having a really simple base linux I can just install stuff on. I don’t want package management, I want a simple, stripped down Linux where I can install only what I want and not have to deal with someone else’s ideas for dependency resolution.
Actually it does, believe it or not.
My firewall is as stripped down as it gets, and it is running Debian Sarge stable.
When I need to install one app, I do apt-get install and it resolves the dependencies and installs it.
Updating and upgrading is just as easy. My firewall started out as Sarge/testing and I did an apt-get dist-upgrade to move it over to the stable tree. My life has never been easier administering my firewall.
What you aren’t getting is: That is not what I want.
I do not want *any* package management. I want a bare-bones OS where I can do it all myself. I do not want package management. At all.
That’s why I <3 distros using apt-get or similar package management techniques. portage is even better if you run gentoo. I takes care of all the dependancies and installing for you. You literally type # emerge openoffice and ,it does the rest 95% of the time.