On Thursday 04 October 2001 11:58, you wrote: > [Mandrake] has a major problem. RPMS!!! rpms suck.
Actually, I think some of the dependencies suck. For example, some packages aren't very granular, so for example you might have to install mysql to make some tiny package happy because one of the interfaces it uses is mysql and there's no easy way to build it so that it will both do mysql and do without mysql. Another example, sometimes the dependencies are set to ``whatever I was compiled with'' - which is usually the latest and greatest - when something older would do fine. This results in having to upgrade half of your universe before everything is happy again. But count the packages in Mandrake 8.1 (2029 of them!) and be glad that someone had the time to package them at all, using _any_ packaging system! (-: > Mandrake is still known as a redhat rip-off which is because it uses rpms. No problem. I understand that 8.1's package manager also understands DEBs and other things. World domination is just to hand. (-:
