On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:35:36PM -0600, steve ulrich wrote: > > ahh yes, the infamous > _if_you_used_distribution_X_you'd_be_so_much_better_off_response. i'm > confident someone will shortly chime in with a package manager that > wrappers the pain of another package manager apt2foo, foo2rpm and > rpm2foo are all waiting in the wings to solve the problem. > > the problem isn't the inability to install backuppc or package/apt/rpm > foo. it's support and documentation and polishing the rough edges to > minimize folks pain. I think the point is that in this case the problem _is_ getting the dependencies for backuppc installed. That is the kind of polish that a good distribution provides. I am sure there are several distributions that would isntall backuppc easily. I also know from experience on Solaris that struggling with CPAN packages can be frustrating. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list