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[Joe Klemmer]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:40, Collins wrote:

> My past experience with RPM has been that this even more frequently
> means that the RPM was not developed for your particular distro. 
> LSB/FSB or no, every distro tailors the system a little differently,
> and even though your RPM database correctly describes your system,
> some new foreign RPMs just can't find libraries that are really
> installed.  That's the major grief with RPM.  

	It used to be quite bad with this a few years ago, yes.  People were
making separate rpms for RH and Mdk and SuSE and Caldera...  It's not
much like this anymore.  Well, except for Mdk.  LSB really has made a
difference.
 
> OTH, most tarballs use a standard ./configure, and if you can't find a
> library automatically, you can pass a switch to set the path to that
> library.  You can probably do something similar by tinkering with the
> RPM, but that's more akin to waving chicken bones.

	The problem with tarballs is that 50% of them don't use
autoconf/automake and don't have any uninstall facilities.  And it's
relatively easy to send any command line switches to the rpm build
process with the spec file.  I do it all the time.

	But this really is the strength of Software Libre...  You can do
whatever best suites your needs.

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