2 Apr
2003
2 Apr
'03
12:43 a.m.
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:19, Speaker to Vegetables wrote:
Sorry, Austin, but in practice, installing an RPM
intended for one
distribution on another distribution, is not particularly likely to
work. It may refuse to install unless you "force" it. It may install
and destabilize your system. I find it much easier and safer to install
from source tarballs than to install a "foreign" RPM. In theory an RPM
And I find it much easier and safer to find the source RPM to that foreign
RPM, try rpm --rebuild, and if that doesn't work, make the couple of lines of
necessary changes in the spec file and stick the resulting
now-Mandrake-specific RPM out on my website for anyone to use. Then if it
turns out I don't want it anymore, I'm not stuck looking for needles in the
haystack that is my filesystem when I want to uninstall it, nor do I have to
worry about it stomping some other application's files as has been known to
happen.
I'm not ashamed of being a usability nazi. I won't be satisfied until Linux
is easier to use for non-geeks and easier to manage in large quantities than
both Mac and Windows, and I'm doing what little I can to help that along. I
don't think it's any coincidence that all these usable audio apps started
appearing once the Linux desktops started maturing, and I doubt the trend is
going to reverse.
Rob