Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] packaging
From: Joe Pfeiffer (pfeiffer_AT_cs.nmsu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 17:31:33 EEST
In-Reply-To: <200107200256.f6K2u4G01618_AT_viper.cs.nmsu.edu>
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> My experience with RPMs, a little under a year ago, was that the whole
> system is basically broken. All the different RPM-based distributions
> have their own versions of the same packages,
This is a problem of compatibility between distros. Hopefully, the
Linux Standard Base specification will help there.
One of the purposes of a packaging system is to enforce
dependencies and constraints on the packages. If RPM doesn't do that,
(and my experience was that it doesn't, at least not adequately), then
it's broken.
-- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer SWNMRSEF: http://www.nmsu.edu/~scifair
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