[ale] The bad thing about RPMs

[phrostie]

although the rpm dependency-hell has been getting worse over the past two or 
three years it seems to be worse with MDK than with RH.  as for me, this was 
what finally pushed me over to debian and apt-get.  apt-get can be a little 
taxing at times especially if you're like me and on a dial up in rural 
georgia.  none the less i dont spend time downloading 10 megs of files only 
to be told that they are not compatible with the others that i need/use.  I 
download only what is needed and if the connection is broken then it will 
start up where it left off.  

that said, i've been told that there is an apt-rpm now.  you might consider 
that

On Thursday 07 February 2002 18:26, you 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.
>
> What do y'all think of my little theory?
>
>
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