[H-GEN] package management systems.

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Bruce Campbell <bc at humbug.org.au> writes:

>  From the tone of replies Greg, you seem to have expressed a problem
> without applying a bit of Common Sense.  Yes, most package management
> tools do 'allow' packages to be installed from an arbitary filename, and
> then 'insist' that you find out the proper name of the package before
> uninstalling it.  Doing otherwise does not appear to be the 'Right Thing'
> to do, and most (all?) package management systems seem to adhere to this.

Well, to be completely fair, I shall point out that on a Debian by
using apt and/or dselect, one never ever needs to deal with a
package's file name at all.  So you can certainly say

        apt-get install foo
        apt-get remove foo

without any worries.
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