Re: RH and GNOME
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 02:12:03AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> "Petra, Kevin J Poorman" <ewigin@SoftHome.net> writes:
>
> > dpkg should be made to call alien on a rh package automaticly
> > ... ie: dpkg -i some_package.rpm would trigger alein, and then
> > dpkg... so that it's automatic, and easy for newbies, and non-power
> > users, to install rh packages.
>
> All other issues aside, I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I
> think this is an extremely poor idea. Who's going to take
> responsiblilty for *big* flame festival as soon as some user tries
>
> dpkg -i sysvinit*.rpm
>
> because they heard there was a security fix that they needed that was
> already available in the RedHat package?
Don't you know about the LSB proposal?
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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