[oclug] Prefered Methods

[Dave O'Neill]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:39:00AM -0500, Matt Rose wrote:

> When a developer makes an RPM package, he doesn't want it to depend on
> anything that it doesn't absolutely have to, debian packagers are a lot
> more likely to throw a feature in there that requires a dependency
> (Sendmail requiring LDAP libs is, unfortunately, still the best example of
> this) just because they know that APT will automagically grab it and
> install it.  

Not quite.  When an independant developer makes an RPM, this is generally
the case.  But when a developer working for a distribution generates an RPM,
they generally have no problem creating dependancies on dozens of other
things included with the distribution that are not strictly prerequisites
for the new RPM.

-dave0
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