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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: The Ultimate Installation/Unistallation Method
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       2000-09-21 0:55:34
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> In this respect only (my proposal covers a lot more advantages than only
> this, but...), you would have (unix)-(platform)-(compiler) packages, not
> redhat packages and mandrake packages, etc.

  See my post. This isn't RPM's fault, but the company's faults. However, much of
it is a myth, many packages made for one will work on another. You just have to
force a --nodep on those packages.


> In my opinion, RPMs are not expandable enough.  You couldn't add all the
> required functionality without breaking compatibility, in which case, you'd
> have a third format anyways, with the same extention.  Plus RedHat owns RPM.
> Wouldn't it be nice for a large group of all sorts of developers using all
> sorts of systems to develop xin's?

   RedHat owns it, but as you know it is open source, so it's no different than
the KDE developers owning KDE. IF RedHat got crazy and messed up RPM, people would
have no reason they couldn't separate development from the main RPM code base.

   -Tim

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