Re: problems running guile

[Shelagh Manton]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:32:24 +0400, Vorfeed Canal wrote:

> On 10/18/05, Shelagh Manton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Updateing lilypond using the autopackager must have corrupted the previous
>> installation of guile. This solved the problem, but of course I don't know
>> how or why :)
> 
> Noone knows this with autopackage. This ugly thing was developed as
> "InstallShit raplacement for *nix". It's so easy to install software
> in Windows world - why in linux it must be different ? Let's ignore
> will of distribution creators and make everything just like in
> Windows: any autopackage can corrupt anything in your system and
> you'll never know what exactly - but this is minor price to pay, right
> ?
> 
> To me this is major price to pay and I *never* use autopackage but YMMV.
> 
> http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/autopackage_designed_by_monkeys-2005-03-28-14-20.html
> 
Interesting. As I am totally ignorant about how any of the package
managers work internally, I just supposed it would be OK to use something
that used shell scripts as you're supposed to be able to read bash with
enough effort and a tutorial next to you. Perhaps using alien would be a
better option. 

Shelagh