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From:
Abigail
Date:
January 25, 2012 03:01
Subject:
Re: Reaction to Redhat/Fedora modified releases
Message ID:
20120125110150.GB17457@almanda
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:31:30AM +0100, Christian Walde wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:41:50 +0100, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
>
>> A good example of a typical development-oriented operation.
>
> If you're looking for non-developer uses of EUMM:
>
> Consider someone wanting to install a piece of Perl-based software on their server, like say, a blog. Maybe blawd. There's a very good chance these will have dependencies not fulfilled by the distro. As such using EUMM to install dependencies becomes a strict user action. However without it present they're blocked and cannot proceed.


Sillyness. There's a very good chance the blog needs a database of some
form that wasn't installed by the distro either. What would they do? 
Install the package for said database. EUMM missing? They have to install
the package that provides EUMM.

Yeah, it's a bit of extra work, but it's far from "blocked and cannot proceed".



Abigail

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