[ale] The bad thing about RPMs

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

> 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.

that's not untotally different from how Red Hat operates.  All releases
within a major version are compatible with each other (so software compiled
on 7.2 should run on 7.0, and vice-versa).

later,
chris




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