On Thursday 15 February 2001 15:43, you wrote:
> RPMs are a funny thing, it's a very anti-climatic experience, it
> just kind of runs and then stops. I think there should be a
> little more fanfare like a message box that says "Successfully
> installed
> <your-most-favoritest-application>!" at the end of the
> installation process. And forget it if you have to chase down
> more than a couple libraries to get the RPM installed - I think
> you could litterally spend all day chasing down libraries.
> Seems like the RPM utility could do that for me since it appears
> to know better than me. I tried to install the Aethera RPM
> which told me I needed Lib A, found that but Lib A needed Lib B,
> fount that but Lib B needed Lib C, and etc - sheesh!.
>
> I'd also like it to ask me where to install because it would be
> nice to be able to installed "locally" (like /home/mjohnson/bin)
> but I guess that would be some sort of security risk. Yeah, I
> guess I could download the source code and modify the config and
> makefiles but I'm usually not in the mood to do that and I don't
> want heaps of source code on my hd.
>
> But I guess in the end, RPMs are better than nothing...
Hi,
You just re-invented SuSE's installtool YaST ;o) Works quite well
automatically fulfilling unfulfilled dependencies, I think
something similar for Mdk or RPMS in general wouldn't hurt.
Have fun,
Harm Bathoorn
