On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:23:59PM +0000, Collins wrote: .. >I have nothing against RPM per se, but I have yet to find the distro >that has a large selection of RPMs for general purpose packages that >are kept up to date. It's probably a good plea for the LFS, because >most RPMs won't work on more than one distro.
I spend a fair amount of time building current RPMS for the packages that we use (our production systems are still all Caldera in one incarnation or another). We have development boxes for each distribution going back to OpenLinux 1.3 so that we can be sure that the RPMS we use are consistent with the same set of libraries etc. Life gets more difficult when one has to maintain an installed base, and there are some systems that would be difficult to update since they're (a) working, and (b) mission-critical. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. -- The Best of Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
