--On Friday, July 23, 2004 3:15 PM -0700 Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW Watching ports get installed under FreeBSD is similar to watching CPAN installations. Lots of fully automated updating of files and resolution of dependencies. Presumably Linux RPMs do likewise, but FreeBSD had it first, along with other goodies like the TCP stack.... :-)
RPM rebuilding is not automatic. To date I've only seen binary distribution. A SRPM (source RPM) is provided in a sibling directory for those who want to rebuild from source manually. But RPM is targeted more at enterprise situations where you build once and then deploy on many machines.
