After checking Planet GNOME, I noticed that someone is actually packaging Red Carpet for FC2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-July/msg03182.html I really think we should consider Red Carpet, it gives us a much needed GUI, and a system that's well tested as well as unification of package management tools with another major distro, which is good for some users. I don't think Red Carpet has the ability to use cd medias, nor does it feature a notification of updates service like rhn-applet both of which are needed. But I agree that statically linking the thing is a bit... excessive, not to mention pointless. oh and Jef, I think you just broke your own personal record for longest name ever. - David *I'll just pretend to be smarter than the average monkey.. and fail* Nielsen On fre, 2004-07-16 at 10:29 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:21:11 -0500, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Matthias Saou wrote: > > > > I'm fairly certain the static linking is done on purpose: to be able to > > still run redcarpet, in the aftermath of a biffed-up machine with > > (possibly) missing shared libraries. > > He didn't say it was unintentional... he just said it was a nasty > thing to do, from a 3rd party packager perspective. In fact I would > argue that as a general rule for human behavior, the really nasty > things tend to be intentional. > > -jef"questions the logic of staticly linking a high level management > tool, against the chances of a doomsday scenario invovling lots of > missing libraries. Makes you wonder, as to how a system gets in a > position like that. Does the high level tool make a habit of > inadvertantly removing libraries when it shouldnt? And if its not a > package management problem caused by a tool or mixed tool usage and is > something deeper, can it really do more than fix the symptoms?"spaleta > >
