[Cialug] CentOS Yum error

[Eric Junker]

Zachary Kotlarek wrote:

> I'm not saying there's no place for package managers. I'm often too lazy 
> to build an inventory when I install new things, which make 
> un-installation a hassle, and a package manager would fix that. And if 
> you want to install gnome or some other huge set of packages it's nice 
> to compile once on your fast machine and never again anywhere else.

You might like the Slackware package manager. Slackware packages are 
just .tgz files that get extracted in the root directory. They can also 
have a post installation script. Packages have dependencies but the 
packages manger does not check for them, rather it leaves dependency 
management up to the sysadmin. A package database is created to allow 
packages to be removed and upgraded.

Eric