Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Mar 2009 12:46 UTC
PolishLinux has an editorial on program installation on Linux systems, and even though it's a bit hard to wade through (the author's native language sure isn't English) it does make a number of very good points in favour of the way most Linux systems handle things. Still, as always in the discussion on program installation, it always feels a bit like listening to a discussion between a deaf and a blind man about whose condition is the easiest to live with.
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2006-10-08
Your example with the two different dependency library versions reminds me to PC-BSD and their PBI installers. You can download a PBI from the Web (or use the much more conveniend command line tool to do it for you) and then install it. Allthough the installation is done to the system (and not locally to the user), all the dependencies needed are inside the created structure. According to your example, FooApp would bring dep1 1.0, and BarApp would bring dep1 1.1, each within its own subtrees without any interferences with other applications.