[Breakage!] Red Hat packaging



Looking at these rpm's. Don't they seem potentialy very dangerous for the average user with gnome 1.4 installed, and has no advanced knowledge?

Forinstance, you have to rpm -ivh GConf-1.1.6, however you need to rpm -Uvh GConf-devel-1.1.6.
(or rpm -e GConf-devel, and rpm -ivh both).

Not doing so, removes libgconf-1.so.1, which in turn breaks gnome-vfs, nautilus, gthumb, control-center, galeon, eel, bonobo-conf, etc etc ...

The same is true for a few other packages... I am just very much afraid an beginning user will do a

   rpm -[U | i]vh *.rpm --force

And end up with a severely broken (non functioning) system! (and as we hopefully already realise, given the option of forcing installs, they will when they dispair when they cant do it the-right-way, we all have been there right?).

All in all, a very good start (and big thnx for all the huge effort!) however, to put them on the public gnome server already? Not sure if thats to smart yet ;-/

   -- Chris






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