A short rant on Ubuntu and dpkg: fsck you, dpkg
A long long time ago, in a gal… in an older computer, I had Fedora. RPM — the packaging system in Fedora — was amazing in several aspects. And the aspect that continually amazed me was the transactionality of software installs: a set of packages either gets installed, or it doesn’t. No halfway installs, no broken shit. Ever.
Fast-forward to my contemporary Kubuntu system. I just installed (using dpkg -i) a series of packages, and dpkg happily unpacked them all on my filesystem, only to nonchalantly tell me — when the files were already replaced on my (now very broken) computer — that it could not configure these packages, because the version of my C library is too old.
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