Re: Installing, Managing, and Running Applications on Linux.

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:42:08 EDT
Rich Payne said:

>If you like this idea then by all means go look into FreeBSD (the others
>BSDs may do it that way as well...don't know).
>
>There a couple of problems i have with this:
>
>1) Time... rpm -i XFree86-4.0.1.rpm  need I say more.
>
>2) Not everybody has all the devel rpms installed. Now you need lots of
>other packages (that you have to compile).
>
>3) RPM isn't very well suited to #2. the debian system does do much better
>(IMHO).
>
>4) It's not very user friendly...now, this is Linux so there's nothing
>stopping you from doing it this way. You have all the SRPM files....

Well, I didn't say it was perfect :)  Nor did I say my methodology was very 
fine tuned :) 

So far I'm quite suitably impressed with Debian :)
-- 
Seeya,
Paul
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