Re: rpm doesn't recognize that apache installed

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas urgent rug ac be>]

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> On July 3, 2002 09:02 am, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > In my experience Red Hat has been, for example, responsive in any bug
> > reports regarding their packaging, and there is a good chance IBM and Sun
> > might do so too.  Have you tried ? Suggesting that their RPM's should have
> > Provide: java doesn't seem like a big problem from their point of view.
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> No I haven't tried but knowing overall responsiveness of those two I could 
> guess. But anyway I'll try, but still more flexibility in RPM == more freedom 
> :)

Well, no, I think this feature would make people writing SPEC files lazy.  
The whole point of package management is managing packages on a higher 
level than your typical source install/check for binaries system.

If you just check for the binary you get to do a system to check for 
versions all over again, and that's exactly what stuff like rpm wanted to 
fix in the first place.  So if you want to use RPM, you have to put some 
effort in making sure you install good rpm's.

That's of course just my opinion ;)

Thomas

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