[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems

[seph]

Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa3 at nedharvey.com> writes:

>> > OSX has no concept of package selection or
>> > package management,
>> 
>> Apple takes a pretty spare course here.  You want [an app]?  Download and
>> install it (and the app is responsible for checking for its own
>> updates).  You don't want it?  Delete it.
>
> Precisely as I said.  No package management.  I think this is un-unix-like.
> Every unix-like system I've used in the last 10 years has at least some
> basic (and standard on that platform) package management tools.

I believe .mpkg files are a sort of osx package management. But no one
uses them, since App bundles generally feel cleaner. But anyhow, I sorta
object to the implication that solaris has reasonable package
management.

seph