On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 dave.woolcock@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:33:39 -0600 (CST), you wrote: > >.. instead of downloading a random '.rpm' off the > >web - and depending upon 'click-to-install' feature of > >konsole/konquorer. > > I thought that was exactly the point of a package manager!? Oh you mean - install some RPM built for SUSE 8.0 on FC3? rpm does lots of checks to prevent 'incompatible' rpms from being installed - but if some 'incompatibility' isn't listed as part of the rpm(spec file when the rpm is built) - rpm can't prevent the bad package from being installed. So, the safest thing is to use RPMs built for your distribution. Satish
