Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:52, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
And more to the point, where third-party RPMs fit into
the picture. In RedHat-land they are almost always made
to fit into the vendor-provided scheme, clobbering system
files if there is a conflict.
It shouldnt do that. RPM packages are supposed to create a .rpmnew file
if the preexisting configuration files are modifed. The rules governing
such changes are documented in detail in several guides. See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/RPM. If packages dont honor such
rules then it can be consider a bug with those specific packages rather
than RPM itself. Do file bug reports as appropriate.
I'm talking about things that depend on updated/modified versions
of stock libraries or other tools like you find in some third-party
repositories.
If they're well designed, they should just fit in along with official
packages and in every respect be suitable replacements for them.
I'd make exceptions for betaware and the like, such as (maybe) KDE 3.5
or 4.0 before their official release. In such cases, one would wish to
have both and choose between them cleanly.
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Cheers
John
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