On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:29:26 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:08, you wrote: > > Well I've finally gotten around to installing Gentoo on my work laptop, > > and now I find I am unable to install our mail client as it is only > > released as an RPM. I emerged RPM and tried to install but got a failed > > dependancy (/bin/sh of all things!!) Is there any way to fake an RPM > > database? Or extract an RPM? I have no interest in trying to satisfy the > > dependacies via RPM > > Don't bother because your mail client will do a first class seg fault when > running under the current kernel. There is sfa you can do about it because > it's a statically loaded binary executable. Transgresses the GPL in a > absolutely classic way. How can you know that it is statically compiled? > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
