Thank you guys for all of your experiences / answers. That just about covers my level of curiosity. But believe me, after a year and a half of rpm dependency hell, i never want to install another rpm package... :-)
On 22 Jan 2004 09:56:23 -0500 "S. Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 19:35, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just for the fun of it a tried emerge -sv rpm > > and it really did offer me the possiblity to install rpm... > > > > Now i just wonder if i can really (hypothetically) install rpm and use rpm > > packages? > > And another question: has anyone here tried this? > > > > p.s. and please don't go on telling me that using rpm would be stupid - I KNOW, > > that's why i switched to Gentoo... > > I actually installed a binary RPM package (F-Prot antivirus). It installed fine > after I passed rpm the --nodeps flag, without which it complained about > missing dependencies. My guess is that rpm looks for the database of > installed packages, which obviously does not exist, and then produces > the dependencies error message. Since the dependencies are anyway > installed, running rpm with --nodeps worked. > > F-prot seems to run without problems, too, so I guess that answers your > question. > > HTH, > > Krishnan > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- GPG public keys available at cozeee.host.sk
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