Re: [SLUG] In defense or RPM (was Amusement for Gentoo nonenthusiasts)

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 22:58:04 EST


On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:21, Eben King wrote:
> My biggest complaint about RPM is that, when I try to install some program
> and it says that I need foolib-3.0, that's fine. But it says squat about
> an installed foolib-2.5, so I end up with multiple versions of foolib
> installed.
> And I don't know of a way to check for installed packages on which nothing
> depends, but that's probably an ID=10t error.

That's where front-ends come in.
They _explicitly_ give you such details.

And there are various RPM options to help in such details on its own
too.

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Bryan J. Smith                                 b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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