Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: 6 Oct 2015 20:06:04 GMT Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5tmdnY_rbLLTfY7LnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vSv8TUE1rbyDPZcqPn2pkwhwaAnljkKmLTNiMmLTFqk0bFyyl7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4hU+UkxJ8MCGvzR5GxqKAloWEQE= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82034 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325076 On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:29:42 -0400, nom de plume wrote: > On 2015-10-06, Peter Köhlmann wrote: >> Jolly Roger wrote: >>> OS X manages app dependencies automatically. Your commands are >>> therefore useless. >> >> This is total bollocks >> >> OSX does the worst way of handling libraries. It packs them with the >> program and other resources into "bundles" >> Meaning: You can have the same libraries of same and / or different >> version several times on your machine, in several different program >> bundles. It is the OSX way to windows DLL hell >> >> And all this idiocy because apple was too incompetent to provide a >> decent package management system, and the OSX users are too damn stupid >> to follow simple instructions to install the needed dependencies > > Holy cow! An answer. Thank you kind sir. Someone answered the fucking > question finally. So please correct me if I am wrong... The package > simply contains all required libraries. But there is no command to list > what the dependency libraries actually are then? > > So I can take an old RPM for example, and query it for dependencies and > then do the same for the new one. > > On OSX, no such function? I'd essentially have to have the app on the > system and maybe run a find command to filter out the dependencies or > something of that nature? Is that a fair assessment? And while you are building this huge mountain out of a non-existent mole hill, do you think that it is important? Apple doesn't have dependency problems period. So who would actually want to see them and what the hell would you do with the list if you had it? -- Lloyd