Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:07 UTC
"rPath's Conary is a second-generation package manager. Considering that Erik Troan, rPath's CTO and co-founder, was one of the original authors of the RPM package format, some might be tempted to view Conary as an effort to do things right the second time around - nor is that view far from wrong. In its design, Conary is a streamlined version of dpkg or RPM with Yum in which all the utilities of those package managers are combined in a single command and combined with version control to meet the demands of a modern distribution."
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kwag: I've been using Foresight for about three months, and it's a delight, without dependency hell on package management. rPath feels "Correctly Built", instead of "Plastered Together", like most other Linux distributions.
I'm not saying that Conary is bad, but can we please get over the "dependency hell" chimera? There is no such thing like dependency hell, at least not any more. Every major package management system (i.e. apt/dpkg and rpm) deals with dependencies in a mature and reliable way.
Nobody can help you if you want to compile your own programs and you don't read the requirement list beforehand.
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2006-08-31
Quote from article:
"Although almost everyone who encounters Conary is enthusiastic about it, no major distributions are apt to swap out their existing package systems in order to adopt it."
The reviewer should read more before saying this.
Conary is way ahead of yum, apt, or rpm.
That's why AsteriskNOW (a *major distribution* from Digium) has based it's distribution on rPath, and others like "SugarCRM", "OpenFiler", etc., have followed
I've been using Foresight for about three months, and it's a delight, without dependency hell on package management. rPath feels "Correctly Built", instead of "Plastered Together", like most other Linux distributions.