Personally, if I were distributing anything in binary-only form, I would make it statically compiled to reduce the dependancies & possible system variation.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:19 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RPM on Gentoo > > > > 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]> > >
