rsync and rawhide

[Paul Gear]

Chris Ricker wrote:
> ...
> At any rate, this on one level at least seems like a bad idea to me. One of
> the nice things about managing Linux (versus other Unixen) is that on most
> major Linux distros patch management and software management are the same
> thing -- patches are just new versions of existing packages, and you
> install, track, etc. the way you do any packages. That's better than the
> usual "one set of tools to manage packages, another to manage bugfixes to
> packages".... The patch.rpm's seem a bit of a step backwards, at least in 
> that respect.

Hear, hear!  Anyone who complains about RPM dependency hell has
obviously never needed to deal with HP-UX Software Distributor patch
bundle hell.  :-)
-- 
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my email reply *below* the quoted text?
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