Mark D'voo wrote: > I would just like to state that mandrake is the best distribution of linux > and the best operating system known to man. It has a major problem. > RPMS!!! rpms suck. they never install right, everything conflicts, and i > have to install everything from source which isn't easy for a newbie. > Mandrake is still known as a redhat rip-off which is because it uses rpms. I > think mandrake needs to develop their own packaging system. Hopefully > mandrake would be able to come up with something better than rpms and debs > (since they aren't much better). If they could sucessfully do this, i > believe it would really help out mandrake. It would not longer be a redhat > rip-off instead other distros would use mandrakes installing system, and > they'd be mandrake rip-offs. > > mark
Could you give us a list of problematic RPMS? It would be useful to resolve conflicts. Chris
