Why can't rpm's just included ALL the required libs... if it's already on your system the installer simply skips it?
-jm On Thursday 04 October 2001 08:55 pm, you wrote: > Why aren't they better? Exactly *what* is so bad about RPM and DEB? > at least with rpms/rpm programs > 1 No easy way to dump your install cds in a folder and > <strong>quickly</strong> have deps > auto-resolved > 2 How does one recover from a burnt rpm database and have the info > acurate? > 3 dep trees get way too large. i propose ap.rpm, aplib.rpm, > apclient.rpm, apserver.rpm, apextras.rpm > so you don't land up installing glibc*.rpm just to get say a DVD player > running (and if your ap deps on someone elses > ap then have a copy on your site!) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
