Ok, how bout SuSE 9.0?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:44:05PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > That's not the fault of RPM, that's the fault of package
> > dependancies in general. Take anything that relies on OpenSSL
> > for instance, and you work up the chain of dependancies. Yes,
> > you have to satisfy the RPM's dependancy list, but it has one
> > to prevent you from doing something stupid like putting in a
> > library that won't have a symbol that something needs.
> 
> Then why not change those installs to work like a typical pkg_inst
> with binaries, so that it will automatically find the correct
> dependancies and install them.  At least the ones I ran across in
> Linux [and I'm no Linux expert] required me to go fetch what was
> needed.  The computers are smart and fast enough that they should
> do some of this work :-)

Yeah, Bill; it's called apt-rpm.

Or yum.

> That WAS a problem in FreeBSD.  And that was because so many of
> the install scripts were Perl and Perl version dependant.  So
> all the install scripts were re-written to use on shell of c
> programs.  

Well, *that's* overkill...

> The additional reason was that Perl has grown so large they didn't
> want to have that as part of the Base OS that they keep slim so
> that it can be used in standalone systems that don't need all the
> fluff.  Now you can install the one distributed or the newer
> version [ which goes into /usr/local ] and a 'use-perl' [I think I
> have that right, lets you set the version you wish to use at that
> time.

Then you make an install-perl that's stripped and tiny, and use that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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