On Thu, 9 May 2002, dman wrote: > number is kinda part of the package name. The package name is as much > as you specify, rather than having specific delimiters like dpkg. rpm > also allows multiple packages with the same "name" (different version) > installed, as long as no two files have the same name. It's a real > PITA.
Which to this day is still (accurately) speculated as being one of the reasons why I moved my school to Debian in '97. *Way* too easy to completely mismanage a RPM based system simply due to inconsistancies in package naming, numbering, and it's other counterintuitive perks... > Someone has even ported apt to rpm. It has some problems though -- > it's potato's apt (no preferences) and it mmaps the Packages file. I > tried using it (within the last few months) on a machine with 96MB > RAM. It dies with an out-of-memory error. Potato's apt on my 8MB > clunker _works_ even though it gets a sound thrashing in the process. Good. New fodder in how Red Hat *can't* use our tools against us. 8:o) -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
