On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Erik Slagter wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:00, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > How are you going to build cross-vendor packages when every vendor is > > having their own specific naming convention and libraries ? What 3rd > > parties are doing is removing all the dependencies from thei packages so > > that they will install. Making dependencies completely futile and having > > no guarantee they will work. > > Although using sonames as dependencies does help. Guess what, libraries differ on different distributions. And even when they are named the same, they may not be ABI compatible. > BTW I regularly install rpms from PLD and Mandrake on my FC system, no > problem. Sometimes I need to persuade them a little bit yeah. Good luck to you. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
