Re: Install instructions?

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <19990410142722.A12615@vorlon.babylon>, "Jesse D . Sightler" 
writes:

[snip]

> Exactly, "rpm -i" ought to be the right way to do it, but still causes proble
>ms due to
> weaknesses in RPM.

What "weaknesses". I would like to know what they are.

> RPM should have some way of checking dependencies more strongly.  For example
>, instead of
> just knowing that Gimp 1.0 requires GTK 1.0 or greater, it ought to know that
> it requires
> a binary compatible version of gtk 1.0 or greater.  Since shared libraries on
>ly change major
> version number when binary compatibility is broken, this ought to be possible

You just nailed the problem with, at least, gtk. Gtk-1.0 is not compatible
with gtk-1.2. Gtk versioning is broken not rpm.

Bob

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