On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote: >> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm? Everyone has their reasons. >> You are assuming that the user has those tools. What if the user is >> on another system or does not have net connectivity? I will go back >> to older versions of fedora to download srpms. However, I usually >> know the package name. >> >> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a >> problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out. I think >> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm >> is more of a problem from the end user stand point. > > You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi. The post by Till Maas that I was responding to made that point. Did you miss my point about being on a system that does not have rpm installed? I have frequently downloaded rpms and occasionally srpms while using a windows machine. In many U.S. government facilities, it would be impossible to get a linux box onto a network with Internet connectivity. There are corporate networks where it would be forbidden to connect a linux system. >> The example that sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm. > > yum search kdeskd returns no results. My mistake. The package name is kdesdk instead of kdeskd. There have been times when I wanted to install Umbrello only. Unfortunately, it installs all of the kde software development packages such as kdevelop. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
