On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> I disagree with all these design decisions:
I did say they were not necessarily The Right Thing.
> Maybe I want to know what version of the source package I have *quickly*
> without cd'ing down some who know's where looking for the version number.
>
> Maybe I know the version of the source I have installed is obsolete, and I
> want to grab the latest, while simultaneously deleting the old stuff. That's
> what rpm -U is supposed to do.
>
> But it's a lot easier to type rpm -e foo-source.srpm than it is to type:
Good points, all of them.
Interestingly, most of your objections apply on a per-user basis (at least,
according to RPM's theory of "sources are user data", they do). Perhaps the
most appropriate solution would be a separate database of source packages,
maintained on a per-user basis. This allows both users "pll" and "bscott" to
have their own, independent set of RPMs/SRPMs they are working on. For the
"root" user, the RPMSRCDIR could just be "/usr/src/rpm" instead of "$HOME/rpm"
or whatever.
> Of course, I don't blame you personally Ben ...
Why not? I naturally hold you personally responsible for every design
decision made in your favorite packaging tool. Even though I don't know what
your favorite packaging tool is. ;-)
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