> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:24:40 +0100
> Waider <waider at waider.ie> blurted in message 3D187D28.5020508 at waider.ie:
>> > Liam Bedford wrote:
> > >
> > > rpm's dependencies are fine.. just use a front end which understands
> > > them.
> >
> > Much as I love my little redhat boxes, I do occasionally get irritated
> > at bells-and-whistles dependancies that RedHat produce in their
> attempts
> > to cater to everyone. Such as requiring postgres libs before you can
> > install XEmacs.
> that kind of thing annoys me.. but the only fix is for the user to compile
> from source, for the source to be hacked so it can split up more (like
> the php libs etc), or to live with it. And for the sake of being
> able to update my machine and not have a compiler on it, the last one
> seems like the easiest to me :)
Like Waider, I've often taken option (d):
Grab the SRPM, install it. Edit the .spec file to remove the
--with-foobar, change the Release: to add .kh1 and rpm -ba,
hack the Dependencies: lines as required and rpm -ba.
Gives me "customised" packages with fewer dependencies, with
the benefits of package management.
Later,
Kenn
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