Re: [Rule-list] RULE + RH7.2 + UPDATES ?

[James]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 00:26:00 +0100
Martin Stricker <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jason Roysdon wrote:
> 
> > I think the biggest thing that I dislike about GnoRPM is that if I'm
> > trying to install upgrades and I need a dependancy (and I have it in
> > the search path), that it still aborts the whole thing, and I have to
> > dig around and find what it wants (whatever sub-branch it's under)...
> 
> Try apt-get (or apt-rpm or so, I don't remember the correct name) from
> Matthias Saou's site http://enigma.freshrpms.net/ Great other stuff
> there, too!

I think this is where Marco's concept of static rpm builds could help... why 
not have those libs uniquely needed by the app that may not be on the box 
included with the app and put into /usr/local/lib.  Some libs... this won't 
work for (like gcc) but others (python 1.5 and 2.0 for example) can coexist.  
But if you build static the application and it's lib are one.  Lousy for really 
low mem boxes (170mb hdd) but if the user has say a 2 gig or better, the small 
increase in size would make up for the hassle of finding all of those *$^&^ 
libs.

James

> 
> Best regards,
> Martin Stricker
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