Re: Debian's Package Management vs Ximian's Red Carpet
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:53:54AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Daniel Hartman wrote:
> > Before I get into hot water, I was wondering what the pros and cons are
> > to using Ximian's Red Carpet over Debian's package management system
> > for maintaining my version of GNOME and Evolution on potato. Are there
> > potential pitfalls?
>
> Well, unless Red Carpet and dpkg know about each other, I would guess
> that some of your library dependencies could become badly confused.
> E.g., Red Carpet installs some Gnome library, but dpkg doesn't know it's
> there, so next time you tell dpkg to install some program that requires
> that library, dpkg wants to install a different version of it...
To the best of my knowledge, Red Carpet does know about dpkg.
A quick google turns up the Red Carpet 0.9 release announcement:
Red Carpet operates seamlessly with your existing packaging tools on
both RPM and dpkg-based systems, giving you a consistent interface for
managing your software on any Linux distribution.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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