Re: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

[Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>]

mmh. Then answer me this. If you don't find rpm useful, what attracts you
to Red Hat? I think rpm is what distinguishes it. You might as well use
slackware if you don't care for rpm.

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, lloy0076 wrote:

> 
> HEHEHE
> 
> I avoid use RPM as much as I can. If I ever use it I always use --force.
> The RPM database seems to fall over even worse then the Windows Registry
> if I may say so myself. It's good for a system where ALL YOU EVER
> install is RPM'ed, and it's on high reliability but other than that it's
> caused me far too much grief to be bothered.
> 
> I don't try to pretend that Linux is Windows and just use make and
> ./configure.