On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:53:54AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Daniel Hartman wrote: > > Before I get into hot water, I was wondering what the pros and cons are > > to using Ximian's Red Carpet over Debian's package management system > > for maintaining my version of GNOME and Evolution on potato. Are there > > potential pitfalls? > > Well, unless Red Carpet and dpkg know about each other, I would guess > that some of your library dependencies could become badly confused. > E.g., Red Carpet installs some Gnome library, but dpkg doesn't know it's > there, so next time you tell dpkg to install some program that requires > that library, dpkg wants to install a different version of it...
To the best of my knowledge, Red Carpet does know about dpkg. A quick google turns up the Red Carpet 0.9 release announcement: Red Carpet operates seamlessly with your existing packaging tools on both RPM and dpkg-based systems, giving you a consistent interface for managing your software on any Linux distribution. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
