Re: Missing packages

Most (all?) -devel package can be build with "rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm".

Le mar 02/09/2003 à 04:19, John Morris a écrit :
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Michael Redinger wrote:
> 
> > from Bugzilla:
> > 
> > "Taroon isn't intended to be self-hosting; the -devel packages are removed
> >  to limit ABI support liability (keep customers/ISVs from using libraries
> >  that we don't want to live with forever)."
> 
> Translation from marketing to english:
> 
> "Don't use this on a developers workstation."
> 
> Of course since developers are one of the few people it would otherwise
> make sense to deploy WS for.....  Sounds like somebody better put down the
> crackpipe before the last former RedHat customer/ISV gets the kinks out of
> another distro.
> 
> Seriously, while someone COULD build up all of the missing -devel
> packages, wouldn't anyone who was into that sort of self abuse already be
> running Gentoo?  Selling a product that is less useful than the free
> version doesn't sound like the best business plan, but then I'm just a
> hick in the backwoods of Louisiana and probably don't understand the
> corporate mindset RedHat is selling to.
-- 
Féliciano Matias <[email protected]>

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