[Gllug] rpms is there an easier way?

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:14:16PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > I can see the attraction for Red Hat of this closed commercial solution,
> > but it's not at all satisfactory from my point of view.  You can't pick
> > your own repositories or blend in your own local archives of tailored
> > versions of packages and the back-end is closed source.
> 
> Umm, it may be but there is a gpl clone which works well.

I've seen it and that's fine, though it is shadowing a closed-source
application which RH can change at any time, as with the merry dance MS
lead Samba through.  And while RH have the commercial solution they have
no incentive to co-operate with any open implementations, whether
Current, apt or urpm.


-- 
Bruce


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