On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:25:58 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote:
> Juha Manninen wrote: > >> * we use recommended *.desktop and *.directory files for menu items > > > > Do you mean there is a standard way for that for all window managers? Ok > > then, > > I didn't know. There are tens of different window managers around. > > Yes, there is a standard. Most (still active in development) like Gnome, > KDE, XFCE and many other smaller ones support the recommendations from > freedesktop.org. So slowly but surely things are improving on the Linux > side for software developers. :) > > > >> Does RPM support dependency checks? Last time I used RedHat (years ago) it > >> did not. > > > > It must have been MANY years ago. I think RPM format has always supported > > dependencies but the tools didn't support it well in the past. > > RPM definitely didn't have auto dependency resolution in the last RedHat I > used, which was 8.0 or 8.1 I think. So yes, that was very long ago. :) I > still remember what a nightmare that was, trying to figure out what do > download from where. Same applied to Slackware with it's .tgz files. > > So when I switched to Ubuntu in 2005, .deb files and it's repository system > was a godsend! There seems to be a misunderstanding. Both deb and rpm have package dependency resolution, but neither downloads them automatically. You must use tools like apt-get for debs and yum for rpms or even better: use the GUIs. They work pretty much the same. Both can ravage your system (although it is seldom the fault of the package system, but of some packages). Just take a look at the upgrade notes of the various distributions. > > Now the support is very good, as good or even better than in Debian based > > That is good to know. Maybe I should try a new RedHat (or is it called > Fedora now) distro in a Virtualbox session to see how things changed. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
