Re: Good enough
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote:
> If the RPM maintainers want to add a step in there that
> searchs the RPM database, so be it. I'm not suggesting we
> ban RPM. I'm suggesting we define the rules necessary to
> make package installation reliable regardless of the
> package format, and regardless of whether or not anyone has
> installed anything using make.
Versions matter. The filesystem does not contain versioning information,
and you're dead w/o it. You can ignore versioning as long as you like but
this problem won't go away.
How are you going to address this?
Erik
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