On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:48 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > This still forces me to use special tools like up2date and yum to access
> > the packages if I want to verify their origins.
>
> Is this really all that big of a deal?
Sometimes you don't have it, sometimes they don't work (say I botched
python on my system -- "and then?") ;-). I use yum/up2date regularly but
I wouldn't want to have artificial barriers for people who for one or
the other reason want to or can only install with RPM.
Nils
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