[Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:57:36AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
>Ya, RPMs are not known for doing a good job of dependencies.  Debian

They aren't?  The example given was a situation where one could say that
RPM was doing *TOO* good a job of dependencies -- it was failing to
install because you didn't have what was needed.

For quite a long time I was runing a 5.2 machine running the newest versions
of GTK, but older versions of glibc.  Practicly none of the stock binary RPMs
would install on it because of that.

However, if you pick up an SRPM, and do "rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm", it
will build the RPM against *EXACTLY* the set of libraries and files you
have.  It works brilliantly.

Sean
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