Re: Red Hat Linux and Frivolous forking

[listy-dyskusyjne Krzysztof Dabrowski]

At 22:05 98-12-22 , Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
>On 22-Dec-98 Sam wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> > Unless you knew in advance that things have been relocated, you'd find
>>> > everything where you normally expect them to be.
>>> 
>>> Yep.  Nothin better than an install that upchucks all over your
>>> filesystem.
>> 
>> Please remove the following RPMs from your box, as they "upchuck" their
>> files all over your filesystem:
>> 
>> inn, apache, bind, libc, gcc, XFree86, ... and, finally, kernel
>> 
>> Despite each package being "upchucked" all over your filesystem, each one
>> may be removed completely in one operation.  Before removing, please run
>> 'rpm -q -l -vv' to get a listing of every file in the package and where it
>> is installed.
>> 
>
>No can do.  You won't find RPM on any of my FreeBSD machines.  Besides, I
>much prefer to build and install my own software.  I'm not an advocate of
>the dumbing down of sysadmins, M$ is doing too much of that now.  If you
>like using RPMs and think they're a good idea, that's your business.
>
>Vince.

After compilation of f.e. XFree you are copying all the files separately or
just doing "make install"?
If you are doing the latter then you are as much dumb as i am when i do rpm
-i to install stuff. Nobody prevents you from checking the content and
paths in the rpm (midnigh commander can browse rpms even). You are just
saving time... belive me.

Kris