Re: GNOME libs 1.0.7 has been released

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 11:40:02AM -0400, hUnTeR wrote:
> Ryan Leduc wrote:
> > 
> > 1)  Yes, it's true that people could compile from src themselves..
> > 
> >     If you have an RPM based system, you're just making a mess..
> >     I prefer to keep tar installations to a minimum.  It's cleaner and
> >     easier to keep track of things..
> 
> Excellent point Ryan, the beauty of the linux (redhat and debian)
> distros is that they are basically package based and updating and
> keeping a database of installed packages is MUCH easier to maintain than
> tarballs. Cron does this nightly thru update.db and keeps track of your
> currently installed RPMs...i dont think it cares much for independently
> compiled tars.

I could be very wrong here, but updatedb on your system likely takes
care of keeping track of all files by updating the locatedb database.
At least it does so on my system.

The RPM database is handled by rpm and is updated every time you install
or upgrade or delete a package.

Ronald