On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:40:34AM -0700, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > >> http://distrowatch.colug.net/article-rpm.php > >> > > > >Wow, along with his disclaimer about being biased, he should add he > >has little knowledge of the subject matter. He overstates so many > >things, it is more FUD than anything. > > I have my differences with the author's conclusions, to be sure. I'm > not sure I'd place so much blame squarely on RPM's shoulders. I think > it's fair to suggest that much of the difficulty discussed here is > merely a symptom of the fragmentation of distributions. It's not RPM's > fault that LSB is being widely disregarded, for instance, nor is it > something for which RPM can reasonably be expected to compensate. > One egregious omission I see (on a very quick read), is no mention of scr.rpms. He is big on source based distributions, but acts like he has never heard of src.rpms. This often solves problems with library version mismatches, etc, and is just a good way to install 'foreign' rpms. I have also *never* had a serious problem upgrading RH from 5.0 -> 7.3, so this is news to me how really lucky I've been. Dodging the bullet with style :) I thank him for pointing out my good fortune.
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