The current thread "download srpms and rebuild package with other options" has raised a few questions in my small brain that I hope will stimulate an interesting discussion.
[1] If I rebuild and install a package, what keeps a later update from destroying my version?
[2] If the answer to [1] is "nothing", then why bother with a package management system for this update?
[3] Why shouldn't I be able to update the RPM database manually (without actually installing or updating software)?
I'd like to tell it that I have installed program "foobar version 99.9", so when the package maintainers release version 99.8 it won't try to update.
[4] I recently tried to yum remove "cups\*", I couldn't do it because of the package dependencies. It seems that everything that can print has a cups dependency. But really, things continue to work fine without cups, so the dependency isn't real. It seems that the package dependency thing is just broken. Comments ???
Maybe I should just learn how to use rpm ... Sorry for the stupid questions, but I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks, John
