Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sat Oct 22 03:08:28 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 22:16 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> * Proprietary vendors just release statically compiled tarballs, or
> generally lack clue (usually both)

I use to use RealBasic in OS X

I decided to try the RealBasic for Linux.
Downloaded the rpm and looked at it with rpm -qlp. they have a directory
in /usr/bin - and lots of stuff with spaces in the path.

I never installed it. Clearly their packager doesn't have a clue.




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