On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:43:48PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > >To take an example, in Mandrakelinux, it has been put out of the core, > > >in its own RPM. Why ? So it can be installed independently, and, (more > > >importantly), updated independently (e.g. for security advisories.) > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see why it could not be updated > > independently of the core, whether it's a part of the core or not. Or are > > you just talking about RPM updates? > > Right, I'm talking about package updates, be they RPMs, DEBs, PPMs, or > whatever else the human imagination came up with.
(Just to go completely off topic and wave the Debian flag around a little) Due to richer methods of expressing various flavors of dependencies as well as the ability for two installed package to own the same file (divert), .debs don't have these problems nearly as badly. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. A fish can't whistle and neither can I. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottlestone, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie."
