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[jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jerry Kreps)]

From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 20:10:01 -0600
Message-Id: <00120220100101.23751@JLKreps>
Subject: Re: [SLE] apt/rpm



On Saturday 02 December 2000 19:15, S.Toms wrote:
> 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

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