On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying real hard to get my company to stop installing everything
> from tarballs and use RPMs so we can track what's there, and this don't
> help my case.
It SHOULD help your case, since this (relatively minor) problem is a
result of not installing an RPM. Basically, rpm's only mechanism for
determining whether or not a dependancy is met is its databases. If you
don't install from rpm's, your eventually going to have to start using
--nodeps a lot. It's not a big deal unless you automate things. But,
then, if your focus was automation, they wouldn't be building from source,
would they? :)
Personally, I'm quite glad that with one command, I can upgrade a given
package on all of the machines I own. Binary packages save a lot of time
and hassle over building stuff from source.
MSG
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