RPM Rant (was: Re: Evolution on RedHat 7.2)

[Blake Barnett]

I've been running unstable on my desktop at _work_ for over a year now. 
I just check the mail lists before I do a dist-upgrade to make sure
nothing breaks.  And I do a dist-upgrade every week-day.

I've been running Evoltion since it was in early BETA.

You don't have to run unstable to run evolution (or anything for that
matter) but you do have to be able to re-build the debs for testing or
stable if that is your perogative.  Others have done this, and I'm sure
you can find plenty of unofficial packages to satisfy your craving to
live on the edge.


On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 21:45, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 15:07, Blake Barnett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 10:29, Victor Odhner wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > But how does the common-library-version-compatibility issue
> > > play out in the Linux world?  I'd be interested in hearing
> > > comments on this, because I haven't done a lot of updating
> > > under Linux.  Seems to me that doing an apt-get to install
> > > one application, with its required libraries, might cause
> > > a library to become incompatible with another application
> > > already resident on the machine.
> > 
> > That's what APT is.  It checks all those dependancies between what is
> > installed, and what is going to be installed, downloads only what you
> > need to fulfill those dependancies and simplifies your life.  It's very
> > configurable and you can do quite a few other things with it, but that
> > is the gist.
> > 
> > In short, the problem you describe, is one that APT was designed to
> > eliminate.
> > 
> ---
> yeah but... where is Evolution 1.01 in deb sources?  in unstable if it
> is available at all - I would bet.
> 
> Craig
> 
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