[conspire] Distro thread

[Texx]

Sorry Rick, I wasnt clear.
Its not the RPM tool that is at fault.
Its the nimrods who WRITE the damn packages who need to be hauled out and
burnt at the stake.
I dont know what passes for QA in RPM, but I sure dont see it.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 1:56 AM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Texx (texxgadget at gmail.com):
>
> > RPM packages tend to send me into "dependency hell" loops.  deb
> > packages, for some reason just have their dependencies nailed down
> > better.  I dont know why, it just is.
> >
> > Deb works first time out of the bag and i cant remember the last time
> > i had a dependency problem with deb.
>
> It's not the package tool that makes the difference.  It's policy.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20170628221254/http://www.advogato.org/article/169.html
>
> > I seem to recall that yast still works on rpm files.....
>
> SUSE is indeed an RPM-based distribution.
>
> > Pauls point about the shrink wrapped package at LW, leaves something
> > missing.  Being handed shrink wrapped CDs at a trade show is VERY
> > different from shrink wrapped on the shelf at Frys.  When I comment
> > about first shrink wrapped, I mean on retail shelves, not out of a
> > backet at a trade show.
>
> {shrug}
>
> Shrink-wrapped proprietary software is very 1990.
>
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