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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Father forgive me for I have sinned
From:       George Hademenos <gpete () ev1 ! net>
Date:       1999-07-06 22:51:38
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yes this is exactly what upsets me most about RPM.  the -i command for prebuilt
binaries that RedHat seems to acquire without end makes it too easy for RedHat
users and similarly for Debian users....How are we going to force the people to
read our 100,000 pages of highly technical and obfuscating stuff if they hear
about RedHat or Debian...and how am i going to sell any of those books if we
don't get rid of these package managers.






Daniel J. Ferris wrote:

> I used RPM to install KDE.  I didn't have to compile anything, or worry about
> libraries that were missing, and it worked in about 5 minutes.  Maybe in a
> couple of years when I am good at Linux I will consider installing everything
> with tarballs.
>
> Please forgive me :-(
>
> Also, remember that not everyone who uses Linux is a computer scientist or
> SA, so RPM makes it easy to install enough stuff to make it work so that we
> can spend many frustrating hours pouring over mailing lists  and HOW-TOs and
> other Linux books to figure out how to compile the stuff that isn't in RPM
> format.
>
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