On 11 Jan 2006 20:11:15 -0500, Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:56, Jason Faulkner wrote: > > (I haven't used RH in a while, so correct me if I'm wrong) > > > > Doesn't RH automatically replace config files saving the old as > > .rpmsave when they change? That to me is reason enough not to auto > > update. > > > > -- > > Jason Faulkner > > I've *never* experienced that with Mandrake, and haven't seen or heard > of that happening with RedHat in a long, long time. Both are RPM based.
One of the things that has long set Mandrake apart from Red Hat is how their packages are set up. RPMs biggest weakness, in my opinion, has always been that it lacks standards for how packages are put together. To remedy this, Mandrake adopted Debian naming conventions and standards and then went and wrote major macro packages to be used to make all their rpms consistent. This level of detail, I believe, is why you've never seen this problem with Mandrake. Red Hat, from what I saw of it, and that has been a long time ago now (before Fedora, certainly) tried to solve this problem by brute force and although they got very good at it, it was never very elegant, imo. I would certainly hope it's gotten better in the last few years. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
