[olug] sparking a flame war.....

[Trent Melcher]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 01:33, Brian Roberson wrote:
> For those of you who complain about rpmhell.....
> 
> I have only ran into rpmhell when 
> #1 I did not know how to check dependencies ( e.g. dist. specific
> methods )
> #2 some idiot performed rpm -i --force pkgname.rpm using a package that
> did not belong on the distribution/version it was installed on.
> 
> 
> - IMHO - rpm is a very good packaging mechanism, and is _VERY_
> thoroughly defined and documented. -- why do you think lsb defines rpm
> as the official lsb packaging method? Dont get me wrong, I am in no way
> saying apt or portage or xyz is any worse, But when you have the
> majority of the dist. packagers using it already, it made sense. Face
> it, The only major dists to stray from rpm ( Just off the top of my head
> - may be missing some ): 
> debian, gentoo, slackware
And Slackware always was a pain in butt to install/configure from the
beginning.  Especially with all the Floppy sets they use to have before
CDs.  Thats what actually turned me to using RedHat was the RPM system.

Trent
> 
> dists that use rpm: ( some are defunct )
> redhat, suse, caldera(pre/post SCO), mandrake, TurboLinux, Conectiva,
> Lindows?
> 
> 
> just a bunch of ramble.....
> 
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Trent Melcher <tmelcher at trilogytel.com>