Re: [Breakage!] Red Hat packaging

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 16:56, Chris Chabot wrote:
> 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).

Yeah, this is quite icky.  Hopefully the "average gnome user" isn't
mucking around in the pre-gnome2 directory though!  

> 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

If they run --force, they deserve to be f*cked.  Sorry, but nobody
should ever use --force unless they know exactly what they're doing, and
what the ramifications are.  


> 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 ;-/

Well, perhaps not, but they're in the pre-gnome2 directory.  They're
also of the release that we just had which was quite clearly labeled as
ALPHA quality.  The packages are of the same quality, for better or
worse. 

I'll put the spec files up in a minute, and people can start hacking.
	Greg

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Portland, Oregon, USA.