<div dir="ltr">Sorry Rick, I wasnt clear.<div>Its not the RPM tool that is at fault.</div><div>Its the nimrods who WRITE the damn packages who need to be hauled out and burnt at the stake.</div><div>I dont know what passes for QA in RPM, but I sure dont see it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 1:56 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Texx (<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> RPM packages tend to send me into "dependency hell" loops. deb<br>
> packages, for some reason just have their dependencies nailed down<br>
> better. I dont know why, it just is.<br>
> <br>
> Deb works first time out of the bag and i cant remember the last time<br>
> i had a dependency problem with deb.<br>
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It's not the package tool that makes the difference. It's policy.<br>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170628221254/http://www.advogato.org/article/169.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170628221254/http://www.advogato.org/article/169.html</a><br>
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> I seem to recall that yast still works on rpm files.....<br>
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SUSE is indeed an RPM-based distribution.<br>
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> Pauls point about the shrink wrapped package at LW, leaves something<br>
> missing. Being handed shrink wrapped CDs at a trade show is VERY<br>
> different from shrink wrapped on the shelf at Frys. When I comment<br>
> about first shrink wrapped, I mean on retail shelves, not out of a<br>
> backet at a trade show.<br>
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{shrug}<br>
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Shrink-wrapped proprietary software is very 1990.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>