According to Stuart Harris:
>
> Ok Rpm is used by a few distributions other than redhat soley so its slowly
> becoming
> the standard.
>
> Could someone tell me WHY its inpractical to include libs with each .rpm
> file
> I personaly would rather spend an extra 5-10 mins gettin the extra libs
> included than breaking my setup cos im too lazy to download 300mb to
> upgrade!
>
> Granted that including some libs won't totaly solve this problem, but it
> will solve a lot of them
>
A little arithmetic probably explains all ...
Here's a toy x program, xbill, that uses X libraries:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root games 31772 Oct 30 10:29 /usr/X11R6/bin/xbill
And here are the libraries that it depends on:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158715 Apr 1 11:32 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3053550 Apr 1 11:25 /lib/libc-2.0.7.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413854 Apr 1 11:26 /lib/libm-2.0.7.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80998 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33903 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 728184 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 246036 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49567 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 78831 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57561 Oct 14 1997 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313477 Nov 5 10:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 917797 Nov 3 17:15 /usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2.8*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1025355 Nov 3 17:14 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8*
So its not "an extra 5-10 mins" to include libraries.
The trick is knowing which libs to include in a package, and which to package
separately.
73 de Jeff
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