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.

-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell

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