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Ubuntu's strategy to not let you upgrade some packages without upgrading the OS itself is insane. You can; it's called "pinning:" https://help.ubuntu.com/commu
by pronoiac 16y ago
Ubuntu's strategy to not let you upgrade some packages without upgrading the OS itself is insane.
You can; it's called "pinning:" https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
If I want Python 2 and 3 on the same system I can't have a package manager tell me that's not supposed to be when I know full well that it's no problem.
Let me check; here on Jaunty I can separately install python2.4, python2.5, python2.6, python3.0, & python3.1.
I don't doubt that you've had problems with the package managers, but, um, I think you're doing it wrong.
- fauigerzigerk 16y agoI guess what I'm "doing wrong" is to expect sensible out of the box behaviour. I'm fully aware that I can make it do whatever I want to if I put enough work into it. That holds for almost everything in life. What's limited in my life, though, is time. Installing Python 3 alongside the old version didn't work for a long time after Python 3 came out. If it works now, that's fine. I compiled my own Python 3 a long time before it finally appeared in my system's package manager. [Edit] And one more thing. I'm not a sysadmin and my interest in system configuration and change management is very limited. But I've been using Linux for a very long time, so if I'm still doing it wrong then many people will do be doing it wrong and that means there's something wrong with the way it works.
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- s3graham 16y agoOn the contrary, you're acting like you desperately want to be a sysadmin by demanding to control which specific version of each package is installed.
- fauigerzigerk 16y agoNo, I want developers to be in control of dependency management.