On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:42:17AM +0200, Andreas Rabus wrote: > - Hard to build. There is a large doc about this task , but it still > takes a long time to learn.
so does system administration for *nix. as it should be, learning takes time and is something no one should ever shy away from. while learning to admin NT is faster, you don't really end up learning to do much other then reboot and reinstall till it works. programming also takes time to learn, the more time you take to learn the better the results. the thing with RPM, while it may be easier for any monkey with a keyboard to make a .rpm, those .rpms often have about as much quality as you could expect from something made by a monkey. when i used redhat i encounted many very broken .rpms, some of which literally damaged my system. personally i would prefer to build a package from source and install it in /usr/local/ then to get some easy to install but very broken .rpm made by someone who does not really have a clue how to properly build packages. I also believe that packaging systems lacking a unified, and certified set of developers (like the debian project itself is) to make policy compliant packages will continue to be the miserable mess that redhat.com/contrib/ is. IMO upstream authors should not be making .debs or .rpms unless they are prepared to truely learn how its done and make policy compliant packages, if they cannot or will not spend the time learning the art of packaging then they should leave it to someone who can. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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