[ale] The bad thing about RPMs

[Kevin Krumwiede]

I decided to replace my Mandrake installation with Linux From Scratch before
I take another stab at getting rid of Windows.  RPMs are nice and all, but
there's one big problem with them that needs to be addressed by the distros:
stability in the libraries they're built against.  I'm tired of having to
upgrade half the system every time I want to install a piece of software, or
risk instability if I override the dependency checks.  I think that when Red
Hat or Mandrake comes out with a new major version, they should freeze the
library versions until the next major update.  That way, an RPM built on,
say, Mandrake 8.1 could be installed on Mandrake 8.0 without upgrading a
dozen other packages.

What do y'all think of my little theory?


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