Re: RPM should be renamed to WTF

Lars Damerow wrote:

>>From Eric G Ortego <[email protected]>, Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:56:05AM -0500:
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>>dependancys. Ironicly this is exactly what I hate about rpm's. Why does 
>>a source package have to depend on other packages?
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>Simple--you often need other libraries to be present in order for a compile to
>work.
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I see.  But that shouldnt differ from tgz's should it?  Or are most 
rpm's binary packages? And if an rpm is a source package I don't see how 
rpm improves anything.

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>cheers,
>lars
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