On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 08:16:45PM +0200, Mads Toftum wrote:
>
> I can't say that I've tried any of the rpm's (but then I've always
> preferred to build stuff from scratch ;-)
> I'm sure you're right when you say that the rpm's are easy to use,
> but I think we've seen a growing number of problems from rpm users.
> I just had a quick look at the contrib dir - and it looks a bit
> messy to me ;-) A while back somebody suggested cleaning out the
> older binaries - I can't say that I disagree with that idea. But
> I've been thinking that maybe we should take it a bit further -
> by having a binary distributions page instead of the current
> contrib page. Then we could have a few words about how to install
> them, and making sure that there are always always links to the
> latest version - so that we avoid people picking an old version
> by mistake. I suppose that I could be talked into providing Solaris
> packages in the same way.
> What do you guys think - is this worth spending some time on?
> If nobody else volunteers, I suppose that I could be talked into
> coordinating such a page.
This sounds like an excellent idea. This would surely help most users who
would like to use RPMs, and reduce the number of issues with mismatched
RPMs causing problems. Now, who's going to do it? ;-)
-Dave
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