On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 12:09:10 PM -0800, Bruce Byfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >This can be made a no-brainer (rpm -Uvh *rpm, and it does > >everything by itself, or just use synaptic or similar GUI, but ...
> The comment, as you correctly infer, was written with new users in > mind. Thanks for noticing! You're welcome. I have just realized a couple of things more about this packaging issue: 1) the article doesn't mention something that mightly bothered me some build ago, that is non relocatable rpms. Is that still the case? You can bet that, script or not, newbies are going to be pissed by that 2) Another thing not mentioned in the article is the great advantage (potentially at least) of many smaller packages vs a big one. OK, initially you still have to download many MBs, but then upgrades of one component don't force you to get again the whole collection. Which is precisely what many dial up users keep asking every 2/3 weeks. > > >:-) Gee, wasn't this just what was said here before Christmas? > >Back then the objection to Java were also from a simplicity > >standpoint (avoid duplication and such), but a lot of time > >went by just to debate whether those involved were key > >functionalities or not > > When someone else expressed a dislike for the move towards Java as a > comment to the article, Daniel Carrera pointed that Java was what the > contributors had chosen to work in. The smiley in my comment was not addressed to the _language_ chosen by those with time and skills. It was directed to the fact that, when we discussed it here, there was a _strong_, repeated assertion, with which I disagree, that the functionalities requiring it are just extensions, not key features. Reading you explicitly stating the contrary made me happy :-) Marco F. -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Red Hat & Fedora for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
