From: Jerry Kreps
Anyone take a look at the article on slashdot/freshmeat about a new fork of apt that now supports rpm. Looks very promissing, would love to see this implemented in the next or future versions of SuSE.
<p>I saw it. On the surface it looks ok. But, I've had recent experience that suggests automatic installs may not be a good thing. While attempting to get a certain app to install using an rpm binary, the dependency said I had to install the libfam library first. There was only ONE site on the internet that had that library, sgi. In reading about libfam there was a recommendation to install a kernel patch to make libfam an interrupt instead of a polling app. The kernel patch was the author's FIRST attempt at kernel coding, and his work hadn't been filtered through the kernel team!!! No way I'm going to install that kind of software. An auto-loading rpm app would have. JLK <p> -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.