On Saturday 25 May 2002 23:54, Niall O Broin wrote:
> Thanks Nick - that'll do it. Why didn't somebody tell me that the building
> parts were in a different package :-) ?
I've only seen it a couple of times -- most distros seem to include it if
you select some kind of "developer" option. On at least one occasion I've
sat there wondering why installing rpm-devel didn't fix it. It's a
developer feature, right ? =)
> The rpm rpm is 3M and rpm-build is 150K - why does RH bother separating
> them ? SuSE doesn't (though mind you, it still uses RPM ver. 3)
I seem to recall that it pulls in a lot of dependancies that otherwise
wouldn't be needed... like a compiler :)
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