Re: [LIH] modifying rpm packages was [ Id-utils ]

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

*[sreangsu acharyya on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:43:36PM +0530]:

><start potential flame fest material>
>tarballs definetely gives one more flexibility, but having a database +
>dependency checks has its advantages too. So all in all i find srpms to
>give the best of both worlds.  
></end>

Nick  wasn't too impressed with that argument ...
Take a look at http://free.house.cx/~nikhil/autosource-0.1.tar.gz for something more 
his style :)

I tend to agree with him.  If you are a power user, RPMs (and debs) and their 
dependencies are a royal PITA.

        -s

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