Obviously, he should spend just a few hours in the shoes of a package manager. Honestly. What would it be without packages/ports? A mess.
The only people trying to make it bearable here are the package/ports managers and yet they don't get any kind of reward for their job. They have to come up with crazy tricks to make things just work because people who write software are unable to write proper install notes, list dependencies correctly, etc..
This process is heavy, slow and doesn't always produces the expected results (there's no doubt about it). So people thought it would be great to have just language-specific package management systems and make it unbearable again. Alright. I personally never use them and install stuff at hand unobtrusively.
Now, do your job. Go fill a bugreport. Or better yet; fork. This is not discussing things, this is not helping. Tears don't help.
The only people trying to make it bearable here are the package/ports managers and yet they don't get any kind of reward for their job. They have to come up with crazy tricks to make things just work because people who write software are unable to write proper install notes, list dependencies correctly, etc..
This process is heavy, slow and doesn't always produces the expected results (there's no doubt about it). So people thought it would be great to have just language-specific package management systems and make it unbearable again. Alright. I personally never use them and install stuff at hand unobtrusively.
Now, do your job. Go fill a bugreport. Or better yet; fork. This is not discussing things, this is not helping. Tears don't help.