On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote: > If the RPM maintainers want to add a step in there that > searchs the RPM database, so be it. I'm not suggesting we > ban RPM. I'm suggesting we define the rules necessary to > make package installation reliable regardless of the > package format, and regardless of whether or not anyone has > installed anything using make.
Versions matter. The filesystem does not contain versioning information, and you're dead w/o it. You can ignore versioning as long as you like but this problem won't go away. How are you going to address this? Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
