RE: An idea I've been tossing around....

[Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada]

Hi!

Although I only know the basic usage of RPM, there is one feature which I
would like on any package manager. That is, to -in a more or less
automatical way- install the available packages require for the package been
installed to work properly.

For instance, I have an old version of SuSE and I wanted to upgrade XFree on
it from RH 6.2 RPMs. I got dependency problems, so I tried to install the
other packages, and each of them gave me further dependency problems.

Just an idea, anyway.

-Manuel.

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Jeff Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: Miércoles, 12 de Julio de 2000 06:13 a.m.
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: RE: An idea I've been tossing around....
>
>
> Sounds like a great idea. I had wanted to get invovled in something
> like this but don't have a deep enough programming background and
> how current package managers work. One suggestion I would make (and
> i don't know if this would fall under shawdow packages) is to
> include all dependent packages for a program as well. For instance,
> if you have something that requires perl you should include the
> version of perl that it requires in the package. I hate downloading
> something and then trying to install it only to find that is says
> "Dependent on this package", and then I have to go find that one and
> the next one and they have to be the right version etc. One other
> thing, are you planning on running your own FTP site for these
> packages? Anyway, sounds great!
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of
> Gordon Messmer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 2:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: An idea I've been tossing around....
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>
> I've been thinking about something for the last couple of days, and
> I'd
> like to share some of my thoughts with other users.
>
> Please let me know what you think, and I hope this doesn't waste too
> much time and bandwidth  :)
>
> MSG
>
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