On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:25:20PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > Sure, but what about 1 rpm from Club? What about one RPM (say fonts) > from Ben's site. What about 1 rpm from PLF. Does the user need to learn > to use urpmi for it? And (since most people only show the hdlist > version) download a 1MB hdlist for a 200kB RPM?
I post clear instructions on my site and so does the club for how to set it up to use urpmi to do the installing. > What if I make up an RPM for someone and send it to them? Is it really that hard to tell people to su and type urpmi filenameofyour.rpm? > Making kpackage the default doesn't help matters, as they can install it > there too. At least with gurpmi they will get dependencies. > > There is no way to stop people installing weird RPMs on their box > besides education, and many people do it with rpm anyway, since they're > clueless ex-RH users. > > IMHO, there is no reason kpackage should be the default over gurpmi. I'm really not sure how I feel about making gurpmi default. I see both sides. Though I do think you're exagerating the need a bit... But at the same time I can see how it might be "nice." -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
