On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> Bryan Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1. How does something like this break the functionality of rpm ?
> > It would only increase it's functionality IMHO.
>
> this is a sentence of Jeff Johnson (the RH guy who develop rpm) i
> like :
>
> "Adding tags to rpm is easy, living with the consequences of the
> addition is what's hard."
heh, I will no doubt agree with you the frustration that comes along when
implementing something new in something so widely used. These are the only
consequences I see, keeping all distros(some distros to only a little degree)
compatible. Which is why if something such as virtual packages in the spec files
for all packages were to be used, all distros would have to follow this, or a
set of guidlines/standard. So I turn my head to the LSB : )
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